I'm having some trouble with the instructions on converting from python-central to dh_python2 while retaining cdbs. http://wiki.debian.org/Python/PyCentral2DhPython2 I see that Steve just added another hint, but that didn't help me much. I'm proofing the instructions with lp:ubuntu-system-services but I see that Martin Pitt completed the conversion of that package while I was asleep. ;) Now, Martin did exactly how I was able to successfully convert the package, but that entailed *also* converting from cdbs to dh7. In my experience, those two go hand-in-hand, and in fact it's usually pretty easy and successful to convert to dh_python2+dh7. The problem I've had is with *just* converting to dh_python2 but keeping cdbs. I think the instructions on the wiki page are not complete, or not correct. When I look at the resulting package contents, the dh_python2+cdbs version is woefully lacking. It doesn't contain any pyshared or UbuntuSystemServices package. Even adding DEB_PYTHON2_MODULE_PACKAGES="UbuntuSystemService" (taken from setup.py) doesn't give me the proper package contents. I understand that it is more to ask of package maintainers to change build systems at the same time they're changing helpers, but at this point I don't know what else to recommend. Maybe I don't understand Steve's additional recommendation for debian/rules. Any suggestions are welcome. Or, if you have an example diff showing the conversion of a python-central+cdbs package to dh_python2+cdbs, I would love to see it. Thanks, -Barry
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