Bug#698117: unblock: rebuildd/0.4.2
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
Hi,
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013, intrigeri wrote:
> Yeah, well, this reply makes me a bit sad, as it relies a bit too much
> for my taste on the fact that Wheezy will not be released soon, and
> I'd rather see such matters handled with a "let's release it very
> soon" mindset, but I see what you mean :)
The time spent by the RM and the maintainer to prepare and accept the tpu
upload is higher than adding a simple unblock (assuming they do not review
everything because at worst it can always be removed).
> > I'd rather that 0.4.2 be accepted despite the large diff.
>
> I've no strong opinion on that one, and I'm not speaking for the
> release team, but I doubt such an unblock will be granted if the
> maintainer does not addresses the question asked by Julien Cristau
> a while ago. I mean, sorry to be the not-nice one, but this unblock
> request has a moreinfo tag for a reason..
So let's answer that question:
> Why does the source package contain .pyc files?
Probably because debian/rules executes tests/runtest.py and that python
leaves those files behind by default. And there's no clean rule to drop
them so the next rebuild will integrate them by default since this is a
native package.
But the .pyc files are not installed and are thus harmless. I can
certainly offer to update the source package to get rid of those files
but I'm not sure it buys us much at this point.
Cheers,
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