>> I'd like to make a radical suggestion: upstream authors should never >> have to worry about building distribution blobs. > > that you think it is radical is quite saying about the state of affairs > in python IMHO :) For me, it is obvious that the upstream author should > not have to worry about debian if he is not producing .deb. The problem > is just that today, we make it much harder for packagers than it needs > to be.
Can I add my 2c... Sometimes it is easier under linux to get an operating system python package (from debian for example) installed than it is to get a pure python package... That seems very wrong to me..... So I am agreeing... What can we do to fix this? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
