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> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:36:23PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Instead, when you first create the package, edit ‘debian/changelog’
> > and make “Initial Debian package of ‘foo’ (Closes: bug#NN)” the
> > very first bullet point in your first
Ben Finney writes:
> Over at the ‘python-dev’ forum, PEP 453 is being discussed. This
> affects Debian packaging of Python, and packages written for Python.
Thanks for discussing this and getting the Debian Python packagers's
position heard.
The PEP has been updated responding
’ – but I also don't know why you recommend
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> Thanks for discussing this and getting the Debian Python packagers's
> position heard.
Again, I thank the Debian Python community members who contributed
constructively to the PEP 453 discussion on the ‘python-dev’ forum.
The PEP has been submitted for pronounc
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>
> I've been working with Ben Finney on upgrading python-coverage to 3.7. I
> believe the package was in good shape before the upload
My heartfelt thanks to Thomas for working to help me improve the
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> > landscape for Debian packagers. I don't consider that a reason to
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> >The following “assumption about the Python package you are working on”
> >survives from the historical version:
>
> Thanks for the review. Yeah, this did read awkwardly from the previous
>
ld help. The link should be from general-name to the
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> I am packaging from release tarballs published on downloads.tryton.org
> resp. pypi [1].
(I don't know what you mean by “resp.”, that's not something I recognise
as English. I assume these are simply tarballs published on PyPI by the
upstream developers.)
> Those tarbal
Paul Wise writes:
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> > Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python
>
> It is probably about time it were demoted from that.
Well, that's not a decision that is for ‘debian-python’ to make :-)
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> >Are you expecting ‘debian/repack’ to be significantly different when
> >repacking Python-language packages, as opposed to the general case of
> >repacking an upstream source tarball? What di
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> > do you think that is worth linking to (perhaps if I put it at a
> > different Wiki page) from the Python library
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> * Ben Finney , 2014-01-26, 17:06:
> > How can I convince ‘dh_python3’ to set the shebang to the *default*
> > Python 3 interpreter?
>
> dh_python3 --shebang=/usr/bin/python3
> (if I recall correctly)
Thanks. So the manpage doesn't say, sho
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> “build” action? The “install” action? Some other action? Reading the
> source for ‘dh-python’ isn't very enlightening on this.
The manpage text “call dh_python3 in the binary-* target”
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> > > add python-all-dbg or python3-all-dbg to Build-Depends, is that simple
> > > enough? :)
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> > It's a bit magical and AFAICT undocumented.
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> > Python 2 versions for building or cleaning this package?
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> Using pybuild should do it.
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> > I suggested to #debian-python that a redirector might be better and
> > there is now one at pypi.debian.net.
Whe is the VCS for the code running that redirector?
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>
> I am using pybuild, and I am wondering why it doesn't do
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> $ cat ./setup.py
> […]
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> 'console_scripts': [
>
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> modules all in a private namespace, but have the Distutils metadata
> also available to `pkg_resources` queries?
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