On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Dafydd Harries wrote: > Ar 10/06/2006 am 21:50, ysgrifennodd Raphael Hertzog: > > I have written dh_pycentral and dh_pysupport which will take care of the > > byte-compilation of the modules and integration with the respective tools. > > Those should be integrated in their respective packages (after review by > > their maintainer). > > Please no. Let's not have multiple solutions to the same problem. This wastes > the time of each maintainer of a Python package who needs to work out whether > they need to use dh_python, dh_pycentral, dh_pysupport or some combination of > the three.
That's why we have a policy document, to say what they need to do and how they can do it. If you want your modules to be byte-compiled you need to use either dh_pycentral or dh_pysupport. Then, you will always have to use dh_python to generate the right dependencies/provides/Python-Version field. It really isn't *that* complicated. > We are on the verge of having a greatly improved Python policy, having that > policy implemented, and finally having Python 2.4 as default in Debian. This > reluctance to settle on a standard way of installing modules is slowing our > progress on all three fronts, and release time draws ever nearer. What is slowing our progress is the refusal to let the time decide between python-central and/or python-support. There's no consensus here and if you need to make a choice, your only possibility is to request the technical committee to make a choice. And the technical committee needs time as well. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
