Le lun. 9 avr. 2018 à 08:46, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I realised that upstream of tifffile[1] switched to Python3.  When
> inspecting the package I somehow think that its main purpose is rather a
> user application than a Python module and thus I would rather rename the
> binary from python-tifffile to tifffile than python3-tifffile.  What do
> you think?
>
> As per [2] I added dh-python to the Build-Depends but it seems I would
> need python-minimal in addition to get /usr/bin/pyversions.  For me it
> is a bit strange to realise that this basic functionality is not provided
> by dh-python "Depends: python-minimal".  Am I missing something?
>
> It also seems that a Build-Depends: python3-distutils and if I add it it
> tries to do "python setup.py clean -a" which is stupid since there is no
> setup.py (and also no python but only python3).  I wonder whether I'm
> missing something here as well in this very simple package which does
> not seem to work well with dh-python.
>
> BTW, I'd be *really* happy if somebody from Python team would take over
> this package into Python packaging team.  I just adopted it from a
> former Debian Med team member but it is not Debian Med specific at all
> and I have no real interest in this package.
>

I could have a look at it. Do you reckon why the package was needed
originally? I am surprised it landed in d-med, so perhaps there is another
package needing it?


> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> PS: Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to this list.
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/tifffile
> [2] https://people.debian.org/~piotr/dh_python2_without_dh-python.ddlist
>
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Cheers,
Ghis

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