I have virtualenv working now, so I want to readdress the *real* question I had.
On May 29, 2014, at 07:54 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>This means however that I need to rejigger the binary packages in the
>python-virtualenv source package. Right now, python-virtualenv contains both
>the modules and /usr/bin/virtualenv. I need to at least add a
>python3-virtualenv package to contain the Python 3 modules. But it doesn't
>make sense to have a /usr/bin/virtualenv with both a Python 2 and Python 3
>shebang line, and thus it doesn't make sense to put Python 3
>/usr/bin/virtualenv in the python-virtualenv binary package. However, I still
>want to make it obvious and easy which package someone needs to install to get
>the command line script.
>
>My thinking is that I would add a `virtualenv` binary package which would
>contain just the /usr/bin script (with a Python3 shebang) and any other common
>files as makes sense (e.g. the manpage). `virtualenv` would Replaces/Breaks
>`python-virtualenv` and Depends on python3-virtualenv.
I want to make this change. tox must import the Python 3 version of
virtualenv, so policy dictates a python3-virtualenv for that module. To me,
it makes no sense to have a /usr/bin/virtualenv in both python-virtualenv and
python3-virtualenv so I want to move the script to a separate binary package.
It would be confusing to have a python-virtualenv that has no modules and only
a Python 3 /usr/bin/virtualenv script. We can probably get rid of the
python-virtualenv package in the long term - if we care - but in the short
term, it will hold the Python 2 version of the importable virtualenv package,
which is needed until the tox transition is completed. Then we can decide
whether or not to drop it.
In summary, I propose the following binary packages:
python3-virtualenv:
NEW package
contains the Python 3 importable virtualenv module.
python-virtualenv:
contains the Python 2 importable virtualenv module.
(needed only until tox is transitioned to Python 3)
virtualenv:
NEW package
contains /usr/bin/virtualenv and the manpage
Depends: python3-virtualenv
Replaces: python-virtualenv (<< 1.6.1)
virtualenvwrapper, dh-virtualenv, and python-tox will have to have their
Depends updated. I'll file bugs on the former two and fix the latter.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Barry
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