> > I've now noticed that this doesn't conform to policy and I'm a little > > confused about what packages I should provide. > Only the name of the module package is against policy - it should be > python-pythoncard.
I'm going to take this to mean python2.2-pythoncard/python2.3-pythoncard based on the rest of your reply. Let me know if I'm wrong. > > This is getting a bit more complicated than I expected it to be. I'd > > appreciate any advice you can give me. > I don't know why you split docs and samples, I'd put them in one package, > the samples go into /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/. The doc package > depending on either of the library packages. The user can decide > which pythoncard version to use for the samples. I guess this is part of my problem. I know that generally, examples go where you've suggested. Most of the time, though, this seems to be for just a few examples that never really get run but are just used as a starting point. The PythonCard samples are as much a demo or advertisement as a set of examples. There's a GUI front-end that is used to interactively pick-and-choose which of the 43 separate sample programs to run. Even with no .pyc or .pyo files in the samples directory, it takes up more space than the installed site-packages directory. I figured that someone who just wanted to depend on the PythonCard modules would not necessarily want to install all 43 sample programs. Anyway, I had been thinking that /usr/share/pythoncard was a better place for a set of samples this big. If I'm wrong about that, I guess I'll move the samples into /usr/share/doc/pythoncard along with the rest of the documentation. > python2.2-pythoncard Depends: python2.2 > python2.3-pythoncard Depends: python2.3 > pythoncard-doc Depends: python2.2-pythoncard | python2.3-pythoncard To the point of the other reply on this thread, why make the docs depend on the other two packages? In case it matters, the documentation I split off is mostly developer documentation. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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