reopen 385305
tag 385305 + upstream
thanks

Le mar 5 septembre 2006 15:40, Vincent Danjean a écrit :
> Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> > Package: commit-tool
> > Severity: important
> >
> >   your build system sets the shebangs to #!/usr/bin/pythonX.Y
> > whereas there is no point in doing so, and that breaks the natural
> > upgrades of your packages when the default python changes.
>
> There is point of doing so. The upstream maintainer use a kind of
> build system so that the /usr/bin/gct binary contains _compiled_
> binary code: [...]
> __builtin__.__import__ = MyImport
> addModule('mysubprocess', ';\xf2\r\n\xf2\xbf\x9dDc\x00...
> [...]

OMG, bloody hell, that's hideous.

> I think the real good thing would be to convince upstream to use more
> standard ways to build, install and run its python program.

OH YEAH.

>   I close this bug, but feel free to reopen it if your are not

please not, that's still IMHO a big problem of the software, rather than 
in the packaging as I firstly though. I'm reopening and tagging that 
accordingly.
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