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Re: Current state of packaging Python software for Debian



On Jun 14, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>ah -- wishlist!

Well, just be careful. :)  We have to clearly define what's the responsibility
of upstream Python, what falls under third-party add-ons (e.g. Sphinx), and
what is the integrator/OS-vender's responsibility.

>On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
>> Can please we have standardized hooks to build sphinx documentation
>> and run setup.py test tests? Can those hooks do the right thing with
>> generated documentation (dealing all the boring .doc-base files,
>> replacing jquery with symlinks, ensuring proper requirements are
>> used).
>
>and providing necessary tuning for matplotlib backends to assure
>offscreen renderer (as I do e.g. in [1])
>
>and not building documentation at all for binary-arch builds
>
>and if we go wild:  take care about moving .so and _d.so
>extensions into corresponding binary packages of architecture 'any', if
>there is a corresponding python-MODULE-lib binary package  defined.
>Otherwise it looks as ugly as  [2]
>
>;-)
>
>[1] https://github.com/yarikoptic/nitime/blob/HEAD/debian/rules
>[2] https://github.com/yarikoptic/nipy/blob/debian/debian/rules#L46
>

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