Package: python Version: 2.5.2-2 Severity: wishlist Yodel!
(Filing this with python because the Python policy is in this package. I don't know if this should be in pythonX.Y or in python-support or in python-central or in python-whatever...) Python packaging should interact with Debian packaging. I'm just learning Python and Turbogears and wanted to use the not packaged tgcrud, after having installed python-turbogears. Installing tgcrud (http://svn.turbogears.org/projects/tgcrud/tags/1.0) as per spec "python setup.py install --prefix /usr/local" (as user after giving write permissions to the relevant dirs in /usr/local), it installs tgcrud plus all dependencies. At least in the cases of turbogears and simplejson it used the exact same versions that were already installed as Debian packages. As far as I understand, these installation programs are pretty much a packaging system in their own right, so the missing bit in the Python policy would be to export the data about installed modules from the dpkg database to Python's package database. cheers -- vbi -- Die Veränderlichkeit der Naturkonstanten scheint eine Idee zu sein, deren Zeit gekommen ist. Nur die Natur ist noch nicht so weit. -- Max Rauner, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21.4.2004
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