Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 03.08.2009 19:16, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: Just a follow-up the clear some things up: * about the -common package (i.e. pysupport namespace issue): - it's not a must, if one package can act as namespace provider, there's no need to provide another one, of course, - being able to

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Ben Finney, 2009-08-20] Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org writes: [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18] i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said module is a python egg. There's tar.gz on PyPi, no need to use Egg.

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 20/08/2009 11:24, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Ben Finney, 2009-08-20] Piotr Ożarowskipi...@debian.org writes: [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18] i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said module is a python egg. There's

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org writes: Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only? For a while my own did, until I realised that tarballs were a better option. I've also seen distribution entries that have no files at all, just meta-data. My point is that it needs to be

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Jérémy Lal je...@edagames.com writes: Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job. Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on ‘python-central’; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from. Instead, use ‘python-support’. -- \ “About

Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

2009-08-20 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 20/08/2009 12:57, Ben Finney wrote: Jérémy Lalje...@edagames.com writes: Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job. Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on ‘python-central’; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from. Instead, use

Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Matthias Klose, 2009-08-20] On 03.08.2009 19:16, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: * about lack of XS-Python-Version and debian/pyversions - if available, both previous places will be used to get minimum/maximum required Python version, it will complicate detection of packages that need

Re: apps-team, modules-team: pet.cgi gives bad SVN links

2009-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Piotr Ożarowski, 2009-08-19] [Jonathan Wiltshire, 2009-08-13] It doesn't seem to affect the Perl team's PET, so I guess it's local configuration. Is it something I can fix? bug forwarded upstream ;-) thanks (PET/bin/templates/by_category, line 281 doesn't work with layout=1) fixed