Re: pybuild now supports meson
Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> writes:
> Hi Simon (2023.08.02_18:23:31_+0000)
>> On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 at 17:44:24 +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote:
>> > The latest upload of dh-python to unstable (6.20230802) includes a
>> > meson plugin, so pybuild can easily build a package multiple times for
>> > all supported Python modules.
>>
>> I don't think this is necessarily appropriate for a lot of the packages
>> in the dd-list: many of them don't install any public Python modules,
>> only private Python modules for internal use (often only for their
>> tests). It seems better for those to keep using Meson directly, to match
>> upstream expectations and give their maintainers full control over their
>> build options.
>
> Make sense.
Is there a better method for fuzzing these modules with CI--as an early
warning system for new Python releases? Would it be useful to activate
the meson dh-python plugin somewhere like reprobuilds, DebCI, or Salsa
CI, while leaving it deactivated on buildds?
Cheers,
Nicholas
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