Hi, Bob Tanner: > On Monday 21 November 2005 09:09 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > $ dpkg -L python2.4-formencode > > [...] > > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/FormEncode-0.4-py2.4.egg > > /usr/share/doc/python2.4-formencode/copyright > > /usr/share/doc/python2.4-formencode/changelog.Debian.gz > > > > ??? Please don't do that in a Debian package. > > First question, why? > Because you can't us it with a simple "use formencode". "pydoc" doesn't work with eggs either.
> If it break Debian policies, please point me to the appropriate
> section(s) and documents. I wasn't able to find any related to python
> module packaging.
>
zless /usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz
> Lastly that is the default installation method when using cdbs. Which I think
> just delegates it to the setup.py (ie authors choice?)
>
Probably. .egg packages might be a nice generic way to ship Python stuff
to random OS installations, but I don't think they should be used in
standard Python packages that are shipped in a Linux distribution like
Debian.
Cc: to the debian-python mailing list for further clarification.
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