On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:17 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Package: pygobject > Version: 2.27.0-2 > > We just discussed how to ship overrides for GIR typelibs for > third-party packages (i. e. not the standard GTK overrides that > already come with pygobject). During that we noticed that merely > having the override in the standard Python module directory > (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/) doesn't work. > > That's because pygobject, gnome-python etc. currently use pysupport, > which unfortunately uses its own directory (/usr/lib/pyshared/...). As > both pycentral and pysupport are deprecated, and the Python guys > (Matthias Klose etc.) now recommend using dh_python2 and dh_python3 > (which comes in the "python" package), it would be nice if we could > migrate pygobject and friends to dh_python2. I attached a patch which > produces a working package, and gobject, gi.repository etc. just work > fine. > > The problem is that this breaks all packages which ship stuff in > /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/gtk-2.0/ (python-vte, python-gconf, > python-gnome2, python-gnomecanvas, python-notify, python-gtkspell, > python-glade2, python-gtk2,python-wnck, python-gnomekeyring). Those > are about 5 source packages only, but if we want to do the switch to > dh_python2, we need to convert all of them in lockstep. > > The advantage would be that if we do it early (i. e. now, when we > don't have packages which ship custom GI overrides yet), we avoid that > these new packages also use dh_pysupport. Over time, it'll get harder > and harder to do the switch, as we get more packages. > > What do you think about this? I'm happy to help out with the migration > once we have consensus about how and whether to do it. > > Thanks for considering! > > Martin >
A big +1 from me. I think it makes sense and if we want to do it, it does need to be now. Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
