Bug#681002: release.debian.org: Freeze exception for libguestfs

[Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org>]

* Julien Cristau:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 22:08:00 +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
>> index fb143c4..1f3c435 100755
>> --- a/debian/rules
>> +++ b/debian/rules
>> @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ override_dh_install:
>>  # Workaround for python3-defaults < 3.2~b2-1
>>  # ("do not rename .so files outside dist-packages directory")
>>  override_dh_python3:
>> -	dh_python3 -p python-libguestfs
>> +	dh_python3 -p python-guestfs
>>  override_dh_python2:
>> -	dh_python2 -p python-libguestfs -V 2.6-
>> +	dh_python2 -p python-guestfs -V 2.6-
>>  
>>  # Workaround for Lintian warning
>>  # "{pre,post}inst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig"
>> 
> Two questions here:
> - why bother working around a bug in python3-defaults < 3.2~b2-1,
>   instead of build-depending on a fixed version?

When I introduced those overrides, I was also providing unofficial
squeeze backports and being able to build those from unmodified source
saved a bit of time. With gobject-introspection bindings and multiarch,
this is no longer the case.

I should just remove those.

Would an updated package, with changes over 1:1.18.1-1 as shown in the
attached patch, be acceptable for wheezy?

> - why are the python and python3 modules shipped in the same deb?  That
>   seems different from every other python3 module I've seen so far.

I don't remember exactly why I did it this way. But there are a few
packages that ship files for both python 2 and 3. I am going to ask
questions on the relevant mailing list about this. This is not relevant
for the release, is it? (Changing this would mean introducing another
binary package.)

Cheers,
-Hilko

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bfdf63e..e4c5c0a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+libguestfs (1:1.18.1-1wheezy1) testing; urgency=low
+
+  * [40d6de2] Remove useless dh_python* overrides (Closes: #681587)
+
+ -- Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:36:10 +0200
+
 libguestfs (1:1.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 6386c1d..f496a8e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -126,13 +126,6 @@ override_dh_install:
 	erlang-depends -perlang-guestfs
 	dh_install
 
-# Workaround for python3-defaults < 3.2~b2-1
-# ("do not rename .so files outside dist-packages directory")
-override_dh_python3:
-	dh_python3 -p python-libguestfs
-override_dh_python2:
-	dh_python2 -p python-libguestfs -V 2.6-
-
 # Workaround for Lintian warning
 # "{pre,post}inst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig"
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
git finished.