Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 24 juillet 2006 16:26, Joey Hess a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: dpkg-repack (from sid dpkg 1.13.22) gives warnings when repacking python packages: ... warning, `./dpkg-repack-5343/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field `Python-Version' ... What effect does this

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Pierre Habouzit [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:11:14 +0200]: just FYI, it's not mandatory [XB-Python-Version], one can use debian/pyversions instead (with python-support). Hm. I can see how debian/pyversions can substitute XS-Python-Version (both are available only at build time), but I fail to see

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 24 juillet 2006 19:52, Adeodato Simó a écrit : * Pierre Habouzit [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:11:14 +0200]: just FYI, it's not mandatory [XB-Python-Version], one can use debian/pyversions instead (with python-support). Hm. I can see how debian/pyversions can substitute XS-Python-Version

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
(Thanks for the CC.) Matthias Klose wrote: I haven't yet seen any reasoning why people are seeing that information as cluttering the database or just as ugly. Causing unrelated programs like dpkg-repack to spew warning messages is, by definition, ugly. Using X- fields, which are intended for

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Matthias Klose [Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:56:29 +0200]: I agree that having Python-Version in binary packages is dislikeable. Out of curiosity, Matthias, would be a DEBIAN/pyversions file able to provide the same information to pycentral? ^^^ just looking at

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 02:07 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Matthias Klose [Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:56:29 +0200]: I agree that having Python-Version in binary packages is dislikeable. Out of curiosity, Matthias, would be a DEBIAN/pyversions file able to provide the same information to