On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 09:27 +0000, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > > I didn't know that. I have always thought that whatever can be > > auto-generated by the build system should not be shipped as part of a > > source distribution. > > I would says that this is easier for the copyright file. > If not you can have this kind of RC bug [1] > > > Is the intent of shipping the c-files just to freeze the version of > > Cython then ? I'd be curious to read about it, can you provide a link > > regarding this recommendation ? > > Yes, this is explained in the cython documentation [2] > but personnaly I think that this recommendation should not be followed > for a Debian package. > > Usually, I add this snipset to the dh_clean. > > override_dh_clean: > # remove the cython generated files distributed by upstream > rm -f $(patsubst %.pyx,%.c,$(wildcard src/*.pyx)) > > BUT > > the setup.py should deal with the .pyx -> .c generation. > > Is it your case ? > > If not > > you can inspire yourself from the mmtk package or the guiqwt one. > > Cheers > > Fred > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735432 > [2] http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/source_files_and_compilation.html
Very helpful Fred, thanks for replying so quickly. I'll have a look at these and make the adequate changes. Ghislain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

