* Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>, 2010-04-14, 07:20:
I've seen that some modules/extensions are starting to ship python3-<mod> packages, thus allowing to be installed for python3.x interpreter. Well, I didn't see a discussion about that so I'm starting one right away. In particular I'd want to ask: - was there a discussion and I simply don't remember about it?
I don't think there was.
- do the python helper tools support python3 packages?
python-central seems to have some (at least rudimentary) support for 3.X.
I was told that python-support does not support 3.X (see bug #573560).
- how to do that properly? simply build with python3.x and then ship the /usr/lib/python3.x/<mod> dir?
s|python3.x|python3.x/dist-packages|However, that would be wrong for pure-Python modules. If root imports such a module, it will be byte-compiled, but then *.pyc won't be removed on purge.
On the other hand, almost the same can be said about modules for 2.X (even when managed by python-{central,support}): if root imports one with -O, .pyo will be created but never removed.
- shouldn't we just try to organize how to do that before creating such packages and then impose their structure/method because "we are already doing it this way" (in particular because the python maintainer was the first to ship py3 mod/ext for his packages)?
We should. -- Jakub Wilk
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