Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 03.08.2009 19:16, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: Just a follow-up the clear some things up: * about the -common package (i.e. pysupport namespace issue): - it's not a must, if one package can act as namespace provider, there's no need to provide another one, of course, - being able to list

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Ben Finney, 2009-08-20] > Piotr Ożarowski writes: > > > [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18] > > > i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see > > > http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said > > > module is a python egg. > > > > There's tar.gz on PyPi, no need to use Egg. >

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 20/08/2009 11:24, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Ben Finney, 2009-08-20] Piotr Ożarowski writes: [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18] i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said module is a python egg. There's tar.gz on PyPi, no ne

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Piotr Ożarowski writes: > Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only? For a while my own did, until I realised that tarballs were a better option. I've also seen distribution entries that have no files at all, just meta-data. My point is that it needs to be realised that *if* a d

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Jérémy Lal writes: > Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job. Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on ‘python-central’; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from. Instead, use ‘python-support’. -- \ “About four years ago, I wa

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 20/08/2009 12:57, Ben Finney wrote: Jérémy Lal writes: Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job. Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on ‘python-central’; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from. Instead, use ‘python-support’.

Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Matthias Klose, 2009-08-20] > On 03.08.2009 19:16, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > >* about lack of XS-Python-Version and debian/pyversions > > - if available, both previous places will be used to get > > minimum/maximum required Python version, it will complicate > > detection of packages that

Python Modules Team Request

2009-08-20 Thread Michael Shuler
Hi all, I'd like to join the team - I'm mshuler-guest on alioth. I've been lurking for a while and reading some of the docs mentioned on the team site and list. I have a pretty good idea on packaging, but would certainly enjoy some oversight. I have one python module ITP to file soon, and have

Re: apps-team, modules-team: pet.cgi gives bad SVN links

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Piotr Ożarowski, 2009-08-19] > [Jonathan Wiltshire, 2009-08-13] > > It doesn't seem to affect the Perl team's PET, so I guess it's local > > configuration. Is it something I can fix? > > bug forwarded upstream ;-) > thanks > > (PET/bin/templates/by_category, line 281 doesn't work with layout=1)