Playing with git-buildpackage

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
Another lazr package (delegates), another ITP (#758828), another chance to play with a git package regime. This time I chose git-buildpackage. I must admit I cheated a bit at first. I started with the 2.0 tarball from PyPI so I could test upstream updating (I released 2.0.1 earlier in the day).

Re: Django 1.7 preparations

2014-08-21 Thread Brian May
I think the following bug I just noticed is significant. Unless fixed, it means that after Django 1.7 is released Debian won't have a Mysql library for it that works with Python3. https://bugs.debian.org/758844 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=72542 -- Brian May

What is the most idiomatic way in Debian to modify defaults in setup.py ?

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, to enable dynamic linking to a C library in a python module (instead of static linking), an upstream author proposes me to either implement an option in setup.py or to make it query an environment variable. With the goal of using the most standard packaging tools, can you recomme

Re: Playing with git-dpm

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 20, 2014, at 03:28 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >One last thing: I'm not sure I recommend going with the package name as the >branch name. I'm tired of typing `upstream-lazr.smtptest`. The default >git-dpm branch names are starting to make more sense. :) I just renamed the branches both local

Re: guardian and django1.7

2014-08-21 Thread Brian May
On 19 August 2014 18:37, Brian May wrote: > At which point I ran out of time :-) > Ok, did all that. guardian does some "creative" things, am surprised it works under any version of Django. e.g. defining conflicting DB models, and only use one of them. Next error: Traceback (most recent call l