About python-support

2006-01-11 Thread Marco Presi
Hi all, while fixing a bug in pointless, after rebuilding the package, I noticed that all the python modules that come with the package, are, according to the lastest debhelper (5.0.13), moved under /usr/share/python-support/pointless/pointless/ instead of usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-pa

Re: About python-support

2006-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 à 12:06 +0100, Marco Presi a écrit : >I have two questions: > >1) Is it correct that the path is >/usr/share/python-support/pointless/pointless/? Shouldn't be >/usr/share/python-support/pointless/? Is it a dh_python bug? This path is correct. /usr/share

upgrade path for python packages

2006-01-11 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Regarding the recent discussions about packaging of Python package, what is the recommended practise to provide a smooth upgrade path during the migration. Suppose upstream (pure) python lib foobar is currently packages as: python-foobar (dummy package depending on python2.3-foobar) python2.3-

Re: upgrade path for python packages

2006-01-11 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:00:21PM +0100, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: | Regarding the recent discussions about packaging of Python package, what | is the recommended practise to provide a smooth upgrade path during the | migration. [snip important contextual information] | Do the following dependenci

Re: upgrade path for python packages

2006-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 à 18:00 +0100, Alexandre Fayolle a écrit : > Suppose upstream (pure) python lib foobar is currently packages as: > > python-foobar (dummy package depending on python2.3-foobar) > python2.3-foobar (installs modules in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages) > python2.4-foob