Package: python-twitter
Version: 0.5-2

Hi,

The python-twitter rules file contains the following:

        for python in $(PYVERS); do \
            $$python setup.py install --root=$(d);\
        done
…
        dh_pysupport
        sed -i -e '1,2d' 
$(CURDIR)/$(d)/usr/share/python-support/python-twitter/twitter.py 

With the upcoming version of python-support (currently in experimental),
such statements will make the package FTBFS, since the files are now
moved to a different directory (/usr/share/pyshared).

I suggest to do these things before the dh_pysupport call, and from the
standard installation directory:

        sed -i -e '1,2d' $(CURDIR)/$(d)/lib/python*/site-packages/twitter.py 
        dh_pysupport

I’d add two side notes to that:
      * There is no reason to build an architecture-independent package
        for all Python versions. You can build it for only the current
        one, python-support will byte-compile the modules for all the
        supported ones.
      * Such things could be done in a patch instead of the build
        process, but I guess that’s a matter of taste.

As a general rule, please do not rely on the internals of python-support
in the packaging; this will avoid such issues in the future (although
hopefully there won’t be a need to change the paths any further).

Thanks,
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