On Apr 18, 2012, at 03:09 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: >I am not a expert python packager. I am dubious about a bunch of cargo cult >packagers all writing seperate but similar debian/rules complications. That's why I wrote the style guide; hopefully at least we'll converge on one set of (well-documented!) cargo. :) >It seems like one is creating a lot of debugging/maintainance problems. > >Why can not some expert that really know what she is doing write the >neccessary infrastructure so that one could write > >> %: >> dh $@ --with python2-and-python3 > >I am not an expert and not particularly interested in joining a cargo cult. > >I think that would be a better way to encourage python3 extensions. As Piotr and Stefano pointed out, multibuild will make many things better. Still, IMHO we should not wait for multibuild to start adding Python 3 support to Debian packages. If upstream supports Python 3, I would really love to have that available in Debian asap. Cheers, -Barry
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