Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 20:11 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > >Do what you (plural) want, I don't care.
> > Personally, I want one helper. The consistency will make life much easier for
> > new packagers, for documentation, and for helping focus the community on
> > fixing bugs, adding features, and improving the state of the art.
>
> YEAP -- one mighty helper would be better than many less mighty. Even:
> one mighty helper would be better than 2 mighty, because we hate
> duplication and trying to reduce our maintenance effort. But ATM,
> is there any source/documentation which could give me a clear answer why
> pysupport sucks and dh_python2 rules (or why should I care about
> python_support -> dh_python2)?
Barry has addressed this in a later mail (on a subthread). Can you
respond, just so that the idea gets another +1.
> I am asking because I have a few packages which use pysupport now and it
> seems to work (so it is the mighty for me)... not sure if I am
> ready to invest time into doing a conversion which has some plausible
> benefits which I could not sense right away.
You don't have to do the conversion yourself. You need just accept
patches to do so.
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