[Ben Finney, 2016-04-13] > Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> writes: > > > [Ben Finney, 2016-04-12] > > > * Pybuild runs the upstream test suite > > > * which imports the Python packages > > > * which creates the compiled bytecode files > > > * which remain in the package directories > > > * which are scooped up by Pybuild for installation > > > > * which should be removed by dh_python3 > > How does ‘dh_python3’ know to do that? Are there settings I should look > at to tell ‘dh_python3’ what to do when it misses some files?
dh_python3 is checking dist-packages and few private dirs by default, see "private dirs" section in dh_python3.1 > > > * which leads to Lintian correctly complaining > > > “package-installs-python-pycache-dir”. > > > > > > How do I convince Pybuild to run the tests as part of the package build > > > (as normal), but clean up the compiled files *after* the tests and > > > *before* gathering the installed files? > > > > does your package name start with python3- or do you have > > ${python3:Depends} in Depends? > > The problem is no longer occurring, because I have tweaked some of the > directories and package names around. > > One complication may have been that the directory name to which the > library was installed (with the “--install-lib” option) does not contain > the Debian package name. > > When I change that, it works; I don't know why. > > The documentation for ‘PYBUILD_NAME’ and ‘PYBUILD_DESTDIR’ don't help me > to understand what is happening when things go wrong. The latter, > especially, makes no sense to me and the man page doesn't help me know > what effect setting that variable will have. PYBUILD_NAME and PYBUILD_DESTDIR are pybuild related, dh_python3 doesn't use them. By changing --install-lib you modified destination directory anyway (and you should point dh_python3 to the same dir - it doesn't know about pybuild's existence) That said, removing __pycache__ everywhere is harmless and dh_python3 should remove it even if you don't tell it to check given dir. I will change that. -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645