On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 17:45, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, we never want to include .pyc in Debian packages, > so I think debhelper's meson build system plugin should be turning this off > as a standard setting for all Debian packages (similar to the way it > sets --prefix=/usr as a standard setting for all Debian packages). > > Do the Meson maintainers agree? Obviously the defaults should do the correct thing. In fact until yesterday that is what I thought the code does not do byte compilation. We might even consider changing the default for this as I would imagine all distros will hit the same issue. > Is there a way this can be done, without making packages FTBFS if debhelper > is backported to an older suite but Meson is not? -Dpython.bytecompile=-1 > will cause `meson setup` to fail if Meson is an older version, and I'm not > aware of a way to say "set this option if supported, ignore if not" without > parsing `meson --version` and comparing it with a threshold. Is there ever a case where debhelper would be backported byt Meson is not? Now an expert but Meson sees a fair number of backports so I'd imagine it to be the more up to date of the two packages. Further, debhelper updates would be gated on test failures, right? So if someone did try to update it then there would be immediate errors? This would be the simplest solution if it is acceptable.
