Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>, 2012-11-14, 11:44:
> While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 
> is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will 
> automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.py 
> checks the Python version and fails. This isn't a problem when building 
> in a clean environment like a buildd, but it's annoying when trying to 
> build the package locally.

s/annoying .*/still an RC bug/.

> I could specify the relevant override_dh_* targets in debian/rules, but 
> I mostly want to let the default things run, just not with Python 2. Is 
> there a good way to specify this in the packaging?

dh_auto_* support Python 2.X only.
You can probably fool it into using Python 3 with DEBPYTHON_SUPPORTED 
environment variable, but this is not a "good" way. If you try this, 
it'll blow up into your face sooner or later.

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Jakub Wilk