Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-21 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hi, On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:17:45PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > Adam has a very valid point that *.pyo and *.pyc files could be included > inside the deb, instead of compiled and removed by the pre/postinst scripts. I agree, this is allowed. If you want to have a TMDA package with .py[co]

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:16:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:41:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > A program run by a user will never be able to write out the .py[co] files so > > the files MUST be generated by the postinst which has root privs. Also we > > c

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:08:22AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | On 20-Feb-2002 dman wrote: | > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | >| >> | >| >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? | >| > | >| > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see w

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:19:57AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > They should be known by dpkg because they're part of the package. It's > > impossible to support more than just the currently installed versions > > anyway. > > Once a new version of python is added, the package will st

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > They should be known by dpkg because they're part of the package. It's > impossible to support more than just the currently installed versions anyway. > Once a new version of python is added, the package will still need to be > updated or at least reinstalled to compile the modules for the ne

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? > > > > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of > > the package management system. > > > > I fail to see why these files need t

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Feb-2002 dman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >| >> >| >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? >| > >| > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of >| > the package management system. >| >| I fa

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | >> | >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? | > | > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of | > the package management system. | | I fail to see why these files need to be

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? > > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of > the package management system. > I fail to see why these files need to be known by dpkg? Many python modules are forwards compatible, I also fail to see

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:41:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > A program run by a user will never be able to write out the .py[co] files so > the files MUST be generated by the postinst which has root privs. Also we can > not expect the user to be running /usr mount rw except when a packag

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:06:35AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Adam McKenna writes: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:55:59AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > reopen 128531 > > > thanks > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam D. McKenna) > > > > Changes: > > > > tmda (0.46-1) unstable; urg

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Adam McKenna writes: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:55:59AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > reopen 128531 > > thanks > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam D. McKenna) > > > Changes: > > > tmda (0.46-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > . > > >* New upstream release > > >* Package split into

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Any policy that forces me to compile .py{c,o} object files in my postinst is > braindead. Then I also have to delete them in purge/postrm, and the > packaging system knows nothing about them. > A program run by a user will never be able to write out the .py[co] files so the files MUST be ge

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-19 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:55:59AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > reopen 128531 > thanks > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam D. McKenna) > > Changes: > > tmda (0.46-1) unstable; urgency=low > > . > >* New upstream release > >* Package split into 3 packages to help attempt to conform to