On Thu, May 17, 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Another note: if there is a debian/pycompat file, you must launch > dh_python after dh_pysupport, but the recommended way is to remove that > file.
This is the way the python-support maintainer recommends handling of the new policy; it's based on the assumption that "debian/pyversions" or the dh_pysupport call themselves are proofs that we're in v2 mode, which might be correct, but makes the computation unnecessarily hard. For example tools like linda or lintian would have to check for implementation specific hints to guess whether the package is following Python Policy version 1 or 2 (i.e. check for debian/pyversions for python-support based packages and debian/pycompat for anything else). I recommend my sponsorees to use such a pycompat file which is still the norm for python-central based packages, and is recommended in the Python Policy itself anyway. python-support based packages work fine with such a file. -- Loïc Minier
