Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.58 Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch
Hello, Matthias Klose announced some required Python packaging changes a while ago [1] which will become relevant once python2.6 goes from experimental to unstable and becomes the default. In particular, Python packages should now be built with --install-layout=deb, since from 2.6 on, the default will be /usr/local (see referenced announcement for details). This is a no-op for older python versions, but 2.4 and 2.5 will support the option as well for consistency: python2.5 (2.5.3-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream version. * Add an option --install-layout=deb, which is ignored for 2.5. * Don't include extensions in the package, which did fail to build. -- Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:53:50 +0100 python2.4 (2.4.6-2~exp1) experimental; urgency=low * Add an option --install-layout=deb, which is ignored for 2.5. -- Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:10:57 +0100 This cdbs patch supplies --install-layout=deb by default. It has to do a dirty trick, though: It renames dist-packages/ (the new default for --install-layout=deb) to site-packages/ again, so that packages which expect setup.py to install to site-packages/ and depend on that in their dh_install files don't break. dh_py* will take care of the final renaming. Obviously this shouldn't be applied to cdbs before above python versions go from experimental to unstable. (Matthias, is anything holding this back? After all, these changes should be quite safe for unstable). But I file them already to give you an early warning, and to discuss the change, so that we have it ready when the python 2.6 switch is thrown. We have this change in Ubuntu since 9.04, and it has proven to work as expected. Thanks, Martin [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00431.html -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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