Hi Julien,
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:32, Julien Jehannet
<julien.jehan...@logilab.fr> wrote:
> Hello Sandro,
>
>> * Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> [22-mar-2010 08:38]:
>> Hi Sylvain,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:25, Sylvain Thénault
>> <sylvain.thena...@logilab.fr> wrote:
>> > On 20 mars 10:18, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> >> I fear it's still wrong. distutils 2.5.1 supports --install-layout=deb
>> >> but the check:
>> >>
>> >> In [3]: tuple([int(x) for x in distutils_version.split('.')]) <= (2, 5, 1)
>> >> Out[3]: True
>> >>
>> >> that causes again to drop that option. You can, for example, check got
>> >> a strictly lower version than 2.5.1 but don't know how correct it
>> >> could be.
>> >
>> > If you tell me we shoud use --install-layout=dev with python < 2.5.1 and
>> > not
>> > <= 2.5.1, changing the comparison into strict comparison should definitly
>> > do the trick and I'll do that.
>>
>> Well, what I say is that distutils version 2.5.1 supports
>> --install-layout=deb (the example is the debian package :) ) so using
>> a stricter check will allow to build logilab-common in a Debian sid
>> environment without patching.
>
> I rather think the current test about distutils version is inadequate.
> Because '--install-layout=dev' doesn't seem to exist for python 2.5.2-3
> (lenny) but *does* for python 2.5.4-1 (distutils version still the same).
Yep, you're right: it was introduced in 2.5.3-1~exp1 so it might be
better to check python version than distutils one.
> Maybe we could add a new check on python version to disambiguate till
> the next Debian release.
I agree.
>> Thanks for your support,
> Thanks for all your Debian support !
np :)
> P.S I've still hope to have concrete time to help the Python packaging teams
> soon.
whenever it will be, you're welcome! Feel free to contact me or
debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org in case of doubts or how to start.
Cheers,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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