2009/12/24 Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org>: > Yes. And there's a change needed in maemo-optify: auto should mean > "don't do anything if it packages to /opt already OR it has a > dependency on pymaemo-optify".
Just a correction: no Python packages currently need to explicitely depend on pymaemo-optify to become optified. This is taken care by python2.5-minimal (and its dependency on pymaemo-optify). Packages need just to depend (and usually Build-Depend too) on python. One idea for a possible generic heuristic (not tested on the maemo-optify context) is to check that the package Build-Depends on python *and* install files to any directories listed by the command below: echo -e "import sys\nfor d in sys.path: print d" | python2.5 (note the explicit "python2.5" call; calling just "python" will not work; also note that some entries might not exist or might not be a directory) In any case, as I said before, it is still a *heuristic*. False positives (or false negatives) will happen. So it is still safer to add "none" to debian/optify if you are sure the automatic optification will break your application. How to know? Try maemo-optify locally. I believe the current Maemo QA will catch the affected applications easily, because the application will break in obvious ways (i.e. will not open). If the chosen heuristic fails, simply explicitly disable optification. Also there is the situation of Python applications that contain big data files, images etc. Those still need some partial optification. I think that no matter how maemo-optify works, the QA team needs to look closely where the application installs files. This can be even made more easy by providing some script that looks for big files (where "big" is the threshold selected for maemo-optify) being installed outside /opt (and outside directories managed by pymaemo-optify). My two cents, -- Anderson Lizardo OpenBossa Labs - INdT Manaus - Brazil _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
