C API include files

Hi, I am the maintainer of the astropy package [1], and there the topic was brought up what to do with header files for the C API [2]. The package provides a C API for one sub-package, astropy.wcs. In the moment, its header files are just installed under /usr/share/pyshared/astropy/wcs/include/ (

python3 and /usr/share

Hi, I am trying to create packages for Python3 for the source package [1]. Following the guide [2], I get some success. However, the packages for Python2 and Python3 differ significantly: in the Python2 package, all machine independent data go into /usr/share/, while the Python3 package contains e

Re: dh_python2 and large /usr/share/pyshared

Scott Kitterman writes: >>Debian Developer's Reference section 6.7.5 (Architecture-independent >>data) recommends to do so, and I would just trust Lintian's >>recommendation here. >> >>Or are they outdated with todays disk capacities? > > Neither devref nor Lintian are suicide pacts. It's good gen

Re: dh_python2 and large /usr/share/pyshared

Jakub Wilk writes: > * Olе Streicher , 2012-07-10, 12:14: >>I: python-astropy: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4137kB 87% >> How do I create an arch independend package that contains these files? > [...] I'd rather not do that. You will likely end up with either

dh_python2 and large /usr/share/pyshared

Hi, I am trying to create a python package (astropy) that has a few arch specific modules built (.so files), and a rather large amount of shared code in /usr/share/pyshared/. Therefore, lintian complains (well: rather informs) about I: python-astropy: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4137kB 87