Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > That's the very long term solution which involves modifying python (and > > such a low-level change could IMO happen only upstream), so I wont hold > > my breath. > The Debian-specific FHS-compliance patches for perl have never been > integrated

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 novembre 2006 à 16:41 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit : > That's the very long term solution which involves modifying python (and > such a low-level change could IMO happen only upstream), so I wont hold > my breath. The Debian-specific FHS-compliance patches for perl have never been int

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I still think there's currently no protection against silent breakage > > in python-support. Packages are still ./configured to install python > > modules into /usr/lib, but this does not reflect the runtime location > > of files. This is part

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 novembre 2006 à 14:26 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit : > > This is already the case. I believe it has been added when we discovered > > problems due to *.so and *.py being in different directories. > > You might want to close this bug. > > I still think there's currently no protection aga

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But /var/lib/python-support contains both the *.pyc and the *.py (although > as symlink to the real file). Oh that's nice. I found the *.py in /usr/share/python-support, and didn't look for them under /var/lib. > This is already the case. I believ

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: > By design, python-support might break some applications. Two examples > lately were the GStreamer 0.10 Python bindings and the GNOME Deskbar > Applet. This is usually because these packages are ./configured with a > default Python path, such as /usr/l

Bug#397895: Breaks software changing the Python path at runtime

2006-11-10 Thread Loïc Minier
Package: python-support Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important Hi, (Documenting a conversation I had with the python-support maintainer and another I had with Steinar H. Gunderson on IRC.) By design, python-support might break some applications. Two examples lately were the GStreamer 0.