Bug#634859: Please switch dbus-python to dh_python2

[José Manuel Santamaría Lema]

Package: dbus-python
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: dh_python2-qt4


Hello,

As far as I know the Debian Python Team started a transition to drop python-
support and use dh_python2 instead[1].

Switching dbus-python to dh_python2 will make temporarily unusable the python-
qt4-dbus which should switch to dh_python2 as well. I will file a bug report 
with patch against that package. Switching python-qt4-dbus (source package 
python-qt4) will break python-qwt5-qt4, python-qwt3d-qt4 and python-
qscintilla2 until they switch too; I will file bug reports against them as 
well.

Note that we (Debian Qt/KDE Mainatiners) uploaded a newer pykde4 using 
dh_python2 by mistake without being aware of the consequences, therefore 
pykde4 and systemconfig-printer-kde are broken, and will stay broken until both 
dbus-python an python-qt4 use dh_python2. We talked about it and we decided to 
just leave them broken for now. Hence why I'm filing this bug report.

Last but not least, note that I don't actually work on python stuff, please 
review the patch carefully. Also when applying the patch, please replace my 
dummy changelog entry with a proper one.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/02/msg00008.html

Cheers.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f5d372a..0de2ebe 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+dbus-python (0.84.0-2~santa2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+
+ -- José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfa...@gmail.com>  Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:30:39 +0200
+
 dbus-python (0.84.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Merge experimental into unstable
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 11fea37..b565f7a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,16 +8,15 @@ Uploaders: Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@debian.org>,
            Loic Minier <l...@dooz.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8),
                xmlto,
-               python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11),
+               python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~),
                python-all-dbg,
-               python-support (>= 0.3),
                libdbus-1-dev (>= 1.4),
                libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.71),
                autotools-dev
 Build-Depends-Indep: python-docutils,
                      python-epydoc (>= 3.0~beta1)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
-XS-Python-Version: >= 2.4
+X-Python-Version: >= 2.4
 XS-Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings#Python
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-utopia/dbus-python.git
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ Conflicts: python2.4-dbus
 Breaks: gnome-osd (<< 0.12.0),
         gajim (<< 0.11.1)
 Provides: ${python:Provides}
-XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: simple interprocess messaging system (Python interface)
  D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications.
  Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 55e6eb8..1cfc6bf 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # Copyright © 2003 Daniel Stone <dani...@debian.org>
 # Copyright © 2006 Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@debian.org>
 
-DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM := pysupport
 
 # These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
 # from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ binary-arch: build install
 	dh_link -s
 	dh_compress -s -X.py -X.js
 	dh_fixperms -s
-	dh_pysupport -s
+	dh_python2 -s
 	dh_installdeb -s
 	dh_shlibdeps -s
 	dh_gencontrol -s