Currently, Lintian supports dozen of tags [1], but very few strictly related to Python packaging. I think maintainers and sponsors would benefit a lot if some common mistakes and suggestions are automatically displayed by Lintian.
I propose a non comprehensive list of tags I'd like to see available:
* E: Don't hard-code {site,dist}-packages
* E: Python files in incorrect python2.?/{site,dist}-packages directory
* W: Build extension for every supported Python version
* W: Arch: all package but build-dependency on python*-dev
* W: #!/usr/bin/env python as shebang for Python scripts
* I: python-support and XB-Python-Version field
* I: No dh_python but pycompat file available
* I: Place Python applications in private directory
* P: Python extension but no -dbg package
If there is consensus on this, I could work on these tags and
eventually submitting to Lintian maintainers for review. Thoughts?
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags.html
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