OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du dimanche 12 juin 2011, vers 04:10, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> disait :
>> It would help some of us (at least me) if someone could explain what the >> story behind python-support and dh-python2 is. It seems that everything >> was dealed in private. From my point of view, dh-python2 is here only >> because python-central could not be deprecated by its author in favor of >> python-support for political reasons. That does not help to adopt it. > The main reason why we're favoring dh_python2 is because, to the extent > possible with Python 2[*], everything is in the package. Because pyc files > cannot be shared across Python versions, and yet in almost every case the > source code can, the Python 2 helpers create symlinks for the py files from a > shared directory into a version-specific directory, because Python will put > the pyc files next to the py files. > Unlike the other helpers, dh_python2 includes the symlinks in the package, so > in most cases, packages which use dh_python2 will come with everything they > need instead of being created at installation time, which is fragile. (py > files are still and always byte-compiled upon installation, but that's > fine). Well, I suppose that a whole new helper was not written just for that. However, I have seen in #629154 that Josselin is also fading out python-support. I don't know if he is happy with this but I take it as some sort of implicit acknowledgment of dh_python2. Therefore, +1 for only one helper in Wheezy. -- Vincent Bernat ☯ http://www.luffy.cx Use self-identifying input. Allow defaults. Echo both on output. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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