Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Mar 04, 2013, at 07:45 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> We're not going to want to install all possible flavors of >> `pyunit2.6`, `pyunit2.7`, `punit2.6-dbg`, `pyunit-3.2-dbg`, etc. etc. > >Why not? We don't know at package build time which versions will be necessary or possible, since that depends on the user's system on which the package will be installed. So we can't add those files to the package manifest. They could be installed dynamically by a maintainer script (that gets triggered at package installation time) but that's less than ideal because then we'll need to also add machinery to properly track deletions so that when they're dependencies get removed we can remove the scripts too. This is something that's very much frowned upon in Debian, especially for /usr/bin scripts. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
