On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:29:09AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote:
> Package: python-support
> Version: 0.5.3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.4 of the Python Policy
>
>
> I filed a bug about this before (#383958), and it was fixed in 0.4.2.
> However,
> some time between 0.4.3 (which worked) and 0.5.2 (which doesn't) this change
> was removed (I just checked, and 0.5 worked fine, but 0.5.1 didn't). Using
> the
> recommended implementation of python-support again generates no python
> dependencies to be included in the Depends line.
>
> Even though the changelog for 0.5.3 says:
> * dh_pysupport: always generate dependencies.
> it also doesn't generate the correct dependencies
>
> Interestingly, the control file for my package (bittornado) is for 2 binary
> packages, bittornado and bittornado-gui. The ${python:Depends} for the first
> gets replaced with "python-support (>= 0.2)" which leads to the error, while
> the second gets "python". This seems strange too, as I think both should be
> getting "python, python-support (>= 0.2)", but maybe because the second
> depends on the first it doens't include the python-support depend for that
> one. I'll try to attach my control file to see if that helps explain it.
>
> I felt the severity was justified, as dh_python is now deprecated in
> debhelper, so for users of python-support this is the only way to specify
> the python dependencies. If I've made a mistake somewhere, please let me
> know, as my package's latest version being included in Etch may be at stake.I'm not sure, IMHO that's important, but as python-support depends upon python himself, the correct chain of depends exists. so that's not a major problem, merely an important one. attached is the patch that should solve that problem. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
--- debhelper/dh_pysupport.old 2006-10-09 09:15:36.000000000 +0200
+++ debhelper/dh_pysupport 2006-10-09 09:15:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
}
}
# If nothing has added a python dependency yet, add it
- if ($need_pydep and not $have_pydep) {
+ if (not $have_pydep) {
addsubstvar($package, "python:Depends", "python");
}
}
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