python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I'm trying to create a package of a program that's written in python (web2ldap). I think I already have it working OK, but having no prior python experience I have a few questions. Oh, btw, I checked the archives, and found out that some of these issues have been discussed already, but I coul

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > 1) Should I ship .py or .pyc or both in the package. Byte-compile at > install time? Ask user what to do? > Ok, just saw a few other messages on this, my conclusion: > Byte-compile at install time > But how do I force the .py to get

Re: Bug#186916: Updated pygame

2003-04-18 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While the documentation talks about ints, it actually reads longs, which > becomes truly annoying in the case of pygame, where we use > SDL_FULLSCREEN, which is 0x8000. On 32 bit arches, it gives > -2147483648 for an int as well as a long. But wit

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis writes: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > 1) Should I ship .py or .pyc or both in the package. Byte-compile at > > install time? Ask user what to do? > > Ok, just saw a few other messages on this, my conclusion: > > Byte-compile at

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I would like to use the debconf-module, but it seems there is no > > python priority:required, so is this module worthless? > > Please, be careful using debconf: you'd better read the "best > pack

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz (that is shipped > > with the "python"

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Bastian Kleineidam writes: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz (that is shipped > > > with the "python" package).

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 19:54, Matthias Klose wrote: [...] > And/or take a look at dh_python, which does all this for "free"... BTW, where can we find this? I'd like to take a look. -- Donovan Baardahttp://minkirri.ap

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 08:09, Matthias Klose wrote: > Bastian Kleineidam writes: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > > > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-poli