Jonas Meurer wrote: > - drop pythonX.Y-mysqldb packages, provide one python-mysqldb package > for all python versions. i'm not sure whether this is possible at all.
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Not sure... and the python policy is kind of "not finished". But it seems > to make sense for me for some very small modules. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-all_versions > > The policy says it's "not yet supported" and describes this the follwing > way: > > You have a version independent Python module. Create a single package > python-foo that has a dependency > > Depends: python > > It should install modules somewhere inside > /usr/lib/python/site-packages/ and use #!/usr/bin/python for > programs. The postinst script should create symlinks in all > /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ directories that point to its > /usr/lib/python/site-packages/ files and compile them. You can do this with python-support today. See python-cherrypy package for an example. Depends: python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.5) Declare the minimum supported Python version. Package installs to /usr/share/python-support/$PACKAGENAME. postinst calls update-python-modules, which will bytecompile Python sources to /var/lib/python-support/$PYTHONVERSION for each Python versions installed. Instead of symlinking, python-support.pth, path configuration files are placed by python-support package, which extends Python's module search path. Path configuration file is documented here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-site.html Seo Sanghyeon
