kombu vs dh_python3

2014-08-10 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have updated kombu in subversion to provide Python 3 packages. Only the install phase is leaving behind empty directories under debian/python3-kombu/usr/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/kombu/ This is turn very much distresses Lintian. If I run dh_python3 manually, after "debian/rules insta

Re: python3- packages must not depend on python packages and vice versa

2014-08-10 Thread Brian May
On 11 August 2014 02:25, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Agreed! If there are bits and pieces useful to both the Python 2 and 3 > versions, please consider adding a -common or functionally similar binary > package to hold them. I guess in some cases it wouldn't be completely > horrible to just duplicate

Re: python3- packages must not depend on python packages and vice versa

2014-08-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 10, 2014, at 06:16 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >Seen this in pycurl (#757694), but if this is something which occurs more >often, then I think we should prepare for a policy update and/or a lintian >warning. > >Maybe it is not yet possible to avoid one stack entirely, but we should not >creat

python3- packages must not depend on python packages and vice versa

2014-08-10 Thread Matthias Klose
Seen this in pycurl (#757694), but if this is something which occurs more often, then I think we should prepare for a policy update and/or a lintian warning. Maybe it is not yet possible to avoid one stack entirely, but we should not create artificial dependencies. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Python time libs for Debian package

2014-08-10 Thread David Maiorino
Hello Python Dev Team, My name is Dave, and I have been working on a simple GUI app for submission into Debian. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754287 https://mentors.debian.net/package/tz-converter In the initial review, I was asked to contact this team concerning the use of l