On 08/13/2010 10:22 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We have currently 4 different Python helpers in the archive[0], which is > about 3 too much. dh_python has been deprecated for almost 4 years, yet > there are still ~80 packages that use it.
We definitely need to get rid of 3 of them, but this should be done after Squeeze in my opinion. Although its annoying to release with so many helpers, it would be a lot of work during the freeze to change it. > [0] There are also some packages that doesn't bytecompile their Python > modules at all. Or that just ship *.pyc/*.pyo in their binary packages. > Or that use existing helper in "interesting" ways. Yay for diversity. I think this should be fixed before Squeeze is released. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c66e2c1.7020...@bzed.de
