Bug#929848: How is the packaging of pplpy going?

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>]

On 7/19/19 2:19 AM, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 18/07/2019 à 21:55, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>> On 7/18/19 3:17 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Le 18/07/2019 à 20:12, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>>>> I pushed it now to https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pplpy/
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to work on / upload it.
>>> Excellent!
>>>
>>> I worked on it a little.
>>>
>>> But I don't understand the lines in d/rules where you put "export
>>> whatever=whatever" as dependencies... does it work?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> JP
>> Great, thanks! That export thing is to prevent sphinx accessing the internet, from
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide#Sphinx_documentation
>>
> I didn't know it was possible to do exports like this, but indeed:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Target_002dspecific.html#Target_002dspecific
>
> I worked on the package some more ; I think it's ready : it builds and
> autopkgtest is happy...
>
> You might still want to have a look first.
>
> JP

Thanks a lot! It looks good, you can add yourself to uploaders and upload if you want.

There's the lintian warning about the Python 2 package, but we could just see if ftp-masters object to that.

Best,

Tobias