Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> writes: > * Ben Finney <[email protected]>, 2013-09-09, 13:36: > > * Use ‘<packagename>.links’ to make a symlink for each package to > > ‘usr/share/<packagename>/foofile’ at > > ‘usr/lib/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/dist-packages/${DISTRIBUTION_NAME}/foofile’. > > How can you do that without hardcoding Python version?
By relying on the existence of only Python library directories installed already during the package build; and using shell globs to match the directory. ===== debian/python-coverage.links: usr/share/python-coverage/htmlfiles usr/lib/python2.[1-7]/dist-packages/coverage/htmlfiles ===== For Python 3, only the major version features in the directory name, so that can be hard-coded: ===== debian/python3-coverage.links usr/share/python3-coverage/htmlfiles usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/coverage/htmlfiles ===== All of this is based on assumptions about how Distutils and the Debhelper tools will behave, and is a hack I would like to be rid of. If there's a better way to achieve what I'm looking for, I'd love to know it. -- \ “Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave | `\ trade was to the 16th.” —David Mertz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
