On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote:
> when purging the meson package, the following files are not removed > properly: > > /usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/wrap/__pycache__/wrap.cpython-35.pyc I can not reproduce this. Installing, running and then uninstalling Meson leaves no pyc files behind on Debian Sid. > It looks like meson does not use the debian python helpers to properly > register and unregister the py files on installationa/uninstallation. I read through dh_python3's documentation and there seem to be a bunch of issues: - it states that the package's name must be python3-packagename which makes sense for Python libraries that can be imported but wrong for us since we are a standalone project that is only implemented in Python (which is an implementation detail that should _not_ be exposed in the package name) - requires installing to the system standard package directories which, again, we don't want to do because no-one should import the internals of Meson - says "call ``dh_python3`` in the `binary-*` target" without telling exactly what the target name should be (or even have a link to documentation explaining what they are) Based on this it would seem that the packaging thing should call "dh_python3 /usr/share/meson" in some target and then it might work. Unfortunately there is no conclusive documentation to whether this is the case or not.
