There are ~200 -nspkg.pth and ~20 .pth files already in the archive. They slow down interpreter startup, mess with sys.path and provide almost no gain for Debian packages that I can think of.
There are only few valid ones: * python-support.pth (and gtk-2.0-pysupport-compat.pth): which hopefully will be removed in this release cycle * wx.pth which selects default wxpython version * Zope2.pth which keeps even worse mess outside dist-packages All other ones can be removed - either after installing directly into dist-packages (PILcompat.pth, GTK ones) or without any change (due to the fact that they're ignored anyway, like HTMLgen.pth or that they do nothing except wasting CPU time - like -nspkg.pth files). Does anyone see a reason not to remove them in dh_python* tools? If not all of them, then at least -nspkg.pth ones? Should we patch distutils/setuptools to not generate them? It generates them even for Python 3.X (which has PEP420 implemented) -- 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
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