Hi Thomas,
> I did lots of that in OpenStack. You can have a look at one of our tool
> to handle the dh_auto_install for Python:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/build-tools/pkgos-dh_auto_install
>
> The way to use it in your debian/rules file is to do:
> pkgos-alternative slugify slugify
>
> [ this tool is available at:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/misc/pkgos-alternative-bin
> ]
>
> then simply do:
>
> override_dh_auto_install:
> pkgos-dh_auto_install
>
> and that's it, it will handle the /usr/bin/python{3,}-slugify
> alternative implementations for you.
That looks very interesting !
However, I have to say I'm a bit reluctant to make the package depend on a
supplementary Build-Dependency only in order to prettify debian/rules.
Anyway, thanks for the advice. :)
Cheers,
Hugo
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