Re: Test suite needs script built after dh_auto_test is run

2016-02-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 04, 2016, at 09:08 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: >I'm packaging a Python application, ocrmypdf [1], that has a test suite >run by py.test. Most of the tests fail because they try to call the >/usr/bin/ocrmypdf script. This script doesn't exist until after >debhelper has run setup.py, which gene

Re: Maintainer scripts, debconf and Python

2015-06-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 09, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >I don't think the language of the software itself matters here at all. Except of course it should be Python 3, not Python 2. ;) Cheers, -Barry pgp72_qCDJkRv.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Python logo license

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 28, 2015, at 04:37 PM, Daniel Stender wrote: >1) what would be the proper license for that file in deb/copyright? IANAL but the PSF's policy on use of its trademarks is clearly stated here: https://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/ They are also fairly permissive in granting approval for it

Re: How to package a binary provided by python2 and python3

2014-11-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 04, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Etienne Millon wrote: >The best practice is indeed to discard the binary in one of the >packages, like your solution 1. However, it is better to use the >python3 version (this is the recommended way now, can't find the >debian-python thread from earlier this year). C

Re: Python package documentation with Sphinx: encoding related build failure

2014-07-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Daniel Stender wrote: >I'm working on packaging a Python package with a Sphinx based documentation, >Nltk 3.0.0b1, and there are encoding related build errors. >... >Strangely, this only occurs when trying to build against Sid (via >Cowbuilder), building with debuild

Re: How to do a test sbuild with additional package, not in the repositories?

2014-06-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 28, 2014, at 09:13 PM, Daniel Lintott wrote: >The only thing I was able to find was this- >http://www.wefearchange.org/2011/09/sbuild-with-local-newer-dependencies.html I still use that setup extensively, most recently while adding Python 3 support to a stack of zope.* and other packages.

Re: Python 3 only package

2014-06-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: >A supplementary question - do I need to name the package "python3-foo" >if a python 2 version is not being provided any more? Or will python-foo >do? Previous versions were just "foo" and being dealt with by >Conflicts/Replaces. This could be your

Re: Is there a way to preserve pbuilder chroot environment?

2014-02-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >I'm new to building packages by using pbuilder tool, and I have to build >a package multiple times before it builds successfully, or in the way >I prefer. This is one of the reasons why I prefer to use sbuild for most of my local builds. You

Re: Packaging with Python Disutils

2013-11-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Nov 20, 2013, at 09:44 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: >This has been frustrating me for a few days now and I am hoping >someone can help with some inspiration :-) > >My upstream are maintaining two parallel versions at the moment, and I >am trying to pre

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 08:48 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: >The lowest common denominator is patch(1). > >So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's >tool to obtain the source: > > git clone > bzr branch > svn co > etc. > >Then, you can import the source into your

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >I think people tend not to contribute at all to projects using a VCS >they don't like. I still contribute to Python . >For example I might stop putting off the Mailman stuff I promised to >work on (porting the Indymedia patchset to mailman 3) if it

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way >better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since >VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others >and sees it as only

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Boris Pek wrote: >>  I don't want to learn GIT right now. Is there someplace I could stay with >> svn? > >Maybe it was the sign to learn something new? =) > >Git and Mercurial are really great DVCS. They are very suitable for small >projects with small developers grou

Re: RFS: decibel-audio-player (Adoption, new upstream release)

2011-09-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 21, 2011, at 02:40 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >Thanks for the pointer. However, I don't understand this: > >"All packages that use the same namespace have to be >converted at the same time. Be sure to use Breaks or >Depends relationships to ensure you cannot mix >installation of python-suppo