Re: gquilt: RC bug fix

["A. Christine Spang" <spang@MIT.EDU>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:42:59AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, A. Christine Spang wrote:
> > How exactly does XS-Python-Version: current work? It doesn't seem to add
> > the right dependencies under Depends: when I try building using
> > ${python:Depends}. I get a Depends: line that looks like this:
> > 
> >  Depends: python-central (>= 0.5.8), python-gtk2 (>= 2.4), quilt
> > 
> > Which is why I added the hard dependency in the first place.
> 
> Why should it need to add a stricter dependency ? Bytecompilation of
> private modules doesn't break when you upgrade to a newer python version.

I don't really know much about the specifics of bytecompilation, but I
-can- reproduce the bug that was reported against the package. If I
install it and then try to run it with a different version of python, I
get an error that looks like this:

spang@loki:~/maint$ gquilt
RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file

Could this be because upstream executes the program through a shell
script wrapper that runs:

exec python $GQUILT_LIB_DIR/gquilt.pyc

($GQUILT_LIB_DIR=/usr/share/gquilt)

?

> python-central takes care of all .py files from a package... so they
> should be auto-bytecompiled as far as I know. For proper dependencies to be
> generated you have to indicate /usr/share/gquilt/ as parameter to
> dh_pycentral however.

Hmm, according to the manpage /usr/share/$PACKAGE is one of the default
places to search, and it looks like this is working properly.

Regards,
Christine