Re: Bug#374809: cdbs: updated python class needed to achieve the transition

Marc Dequènes wrote: > This should come tomorrow, and i intend to do a team upload if you are > not responsive enought, as this is lengthening the Python transition too > much. The current cdbs should go to testing first. The python team is not the only one we have to cater to. The experience o

Re: New python distutils class

Marc Dequènes wrote: > As you may have heard, Python packaging is moving fast these days. We > plan the move the current Python version to 2.4 and in the same time > are drafting a new policy and creating new tools to greatly improve > the current situation. All this leads to the need for a newer c

cdbs to remove *.pyc on clean?

I have a question on the bug report #252134 "cdbs: python-distutils.mk should remove .pyc files on clean". It seems that python setup.py clean actually creates a number .pyc files itself, and quite a number of packages therefore have code along the lines of clean:: find . -name '*.pyc'