Loïc Minier ha scritto: > Thanks for your review, I'm attaching the following new patches: > s/binary/interpreter for /usr/bin/python* > Clarify binary versus source packages > Require the python- prefix for public modules > > let me know if they address your comments
Thanks!
>> I'm unsure about this point. Doesn't python-support search for modules
>> in /usr/lib/pythonY.X/{site,dist}-packages, or is this another location
>> where pysupport can look at?
>
> IIUC, python-supports generates the /usr/lib/pymodules hierarchy which
> is where python-support backed modules get loaded from. This location
> is added to the path by matters of
> /usr/lib/python2.*/*-packages/python-support.pth files:
> % ls -l /usr/lib/python2.*/*-packages/python-support.pth
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 11 09:27
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python-support.pth ->
> ../../pymodules/python2.4/.path
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 11 09:27
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python-support.pth ->
> ../../pymodules/python2.5/.path
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 11 09:27
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/python-support.pth ->
> ../../pymodules/python2.6/.path
Ok, understood now.
>> python-support doesn't manage XB-Python-Version (or at least it
>> shouldn't right now). Is this supposed to be changed in python-support,
>> or packages using such tool can ignore it?
>
> python-support can generate XB-Python-Version:, but wont use the data.
>
> This recommendation was kept because it might be useful to have a
> machine parseable field containing the list of supported versions for a
> package, perhaps to schedule rebuilds.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Thanks for the clarification!
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