Hello All:
As I was trying to implement the new Python policy, I noticed an effect
which is not directly addressed in the policy. That is when a package
contains modules and scripts, there have to be special precautions taken
to make sure that the scripts are not installed with a first line of
#!/usr/bin/pythonX.Y
instead of #!/usr/bin/python
The python-imaging package, which has been given as an example of using
pycentral fixes this by using sed to correct all first lines in scripts.
This is easily done because all the scripts have file names of the form
*.py. If a script does not have this kind of filename, it is more
difficult.
Here is another suggestion for accomplishing the same thing. The idea
here is to just build and install the scripts a final time using he
default python after the scripts have already been installed from the
versioned python installs.
PYVERS=$(shell pyversions -vr)
build-python-all: $(PYVERS:%=build-python%)
python setup.py build_scripts --build-dir=build/Scripts || exit 1;
touch $@
build-python%:
dh_testdir
python$* setup.py build || exit 1 ;
touch $@
install-python-all: $(PYVERS:%=install-python%)
python setup.py install_scripts --force \
--install-dir=$(CURDIR)/debian/debian/python-foo/usr/bin \
--build-dir=build/Scripts || exit 1 ;
install-python%:
python$* setup.py install \
--prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/python-foo/usr || exit 1 ;
-find $(CURDIR)/debian/ -name '*.py[co]' | xargs rm -f
Cheers,
Carlo
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