On Saturday 12 November 2011 22:50:13 Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk>, 2011-11-12, 15:08: > >If Nuitka aims to be a Python alternative, shouldn't it use the > >alternatives mechanism in Debian? > > We don't use alternatives for Python interpreters, for good reasons.
OK. I know of the alternatives system and have seen it used for stuff like Java, so I thought it might be applicable to Python. > >I didn't know there was an --install-layout option to setup.py, but I > >haven't been following distutils so closely of late. > > --install-layout is a Debian-specific option. Interesting. [...] > >I was told to drop X-Python-Version > > Why? I may have been using XS-Python-Version, so I guess I'm a bit confused about this. > >I've always worked with the debian directory's files directly, and with > >recent dh_python developments, the tricky parts like the rules file > >becomes almost trivial; > > I can assure you that simplicity of your debian/rules has nothing to do > with dh_python (or dh_python2, which you maybe meant) development. Well, my point was just that something - debhelper, perhaps? - made the rules file a lot smaller and with less boilerplate, which is useful if you're maintaining a lot of packages. I was using pycentral before, and there's a huge difference between then and now. > >I have an override in the rules file for the man page: > > > >override_dh_auto_clean: > > rm -f debian/shedskin.1 > > dh_auto_clean > > dh_clean reads filenames from debian/clean. You could add > "debian/shedskin.1" to the file, and then get rid of this override. OK, I've done this now. I can't see the debian/clean file in the New Maintainers' Guide, but I guess it's documented somewhere. Paul -- 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/201111122354.12071.p...@boddie.org.uk
