On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:03:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 à 10:02 +0100, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : > > PEP 345 [1] describes version 1.2 of the PKG-INFO file that will be > > shipped with Python distributions in the future. > > > Requires-External: C > > Requires-External: libpng (>=1.5) > > > Would Debian maintainers use this field to extract dependencies of a > > Python package that have to be handled by the system's package manager? > > No, it is clearly not possible to automate such a thing. > > You should use pkg-config, possibly extending it with Python fields, > instead of reinventing the wheel. > > > Does the proposed format match your requirements? Are there any changes > > your would like to see incorporated, so that this field eases your > > packaging work? > > If upstream maintainers update this field correctly, it would ease > packaging work, but not automate it. With the proposal as is, it is > strictly similar to making mandatory the documentation of dependencies.
That is indeed how distutils-sig consensus currently sees that field, at least in my understanding. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
