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Bug#797675: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#797675: RFS: pbalign (NEW)



Hello,
I've made the requested changes to pbalign. Could someone please sponsor?

Thanks and regards
Afif


On الأحد  6 أيلول 2015 10:15, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Hi, Andreas,
> 
> On الأحد  6 أيلول 2015 06:27, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 02:13:12AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>
>>> The binary package is still called python-pbalign
>>> because it does include public python modules..
>>
>> Does not sound logical.  Assume there might be some python3-pbalign
>> sooner or later.  Then you want to provide both python-pbalign and
>> python3-pbalign.  Where do you want to put the scripts then?  So if you
>> ask me spliting the commandline tools to a separate package pbalign
>> would be the best solution even now.
>>  
> 
> I thought about this, but the reason I didn't do it is that the scripts
> are basically just wrappers around the library. A python3 version would
> then have its own version of the scripts.
> 
> I suppose this could be made to work by making the pbalign package
> depend on python-pbalign, which would contain the libraries, while then
> ignoring any of the scripts from a python3 version of the package. I
> like this way better because the use case of the package as a library is
> a very uncommon one-- and the API is not really documented, either. All
> documentation is for the command-line use case.
> 
> So I'll try this and report back.
> 

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Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
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