[Olivier Berger, 2014-02-09] > Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> writes: > > > [Andreas Tille, 2014-02-07] > >> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 02:41:10PM +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > >> > I assume this is a python application and not a library? > >> > >> It is an application including some private modules which I like to be > >> compiled into *.pyc. > > > > please install to /usr/share/package-name/ both the library and the > > scripts, then symlink these scripts to /usr/bin - this way you will not > > have to patch anything. > > > > (use /usr/lib/package-name/ if it contains arch-dep. files) > > What would then be the recommended way to do so ? debian/install, or is > dh_python* a way to do that ?
good that you ask, I will use this opportunity to dispel a myth: dh_python* tools (or any other dh_* tool which doesn't have "install" in its name AFAIK) do not install files. dh_python* is not supposed to install files dh_python* handles already installed files dh_python* tries to move files already installed (f.e. into site-packages or /usr/local/) to the right location ... there's one tiny feature¹ in dh_python* for installing files (*.pyinstall files) but since there's no site-packages vs. dist-packages problem anymore, it shouldn't be needed at all. Once again, just to make it clear: dh_python* != dh_install != pybuild dh_python* doesn't invoke `setup.py install` or `make install` or anything like that. If you want that, use pybuild (which doesn't replace dh_python*, BTW) > May I suggest to update the wiki to reflect such cases, i.e. difference > between application-specific modules or generic library modules. https://wiki.debian.org/Python/AppStyleGuide needs some updates indeed I'll try to squash it into few lines (with PYBUILD_INSTALL_ARGS=--install-lib=/usr/share/foo --install-scripts=/usr/share/foo) [¹] which was apparently a big mistake - I will try to fix this by moving this functionality to pybuild (which didn't exist when I wrote dh_python2) -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140210115350.ga3...@sts0.p1otr.com
