Package: python-pylibmc
Version: 0.9.2-1
Dear Debian Python folks:
Thank you for your excellent work! The collection of Debian Python
packages are a very good toolset.
When we run some code which tests for the presence of Python
distributions by looking for their .egg-info files, it fails to
detect the pylibmc Python distribution as installed from the python-
pylibmc Debian package in sid. (Note that this code looks for .egg-
info files instead of for Debian packages because it is cross-
platform and it is concerned with detecting the Python distribution,
not the operating system package, which may contain more than one
Python distribution and which may have a different name.)
The pylibmc package has the following file list:
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.5/_pylibmc.so
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/_pylibmc.so
/usr/share/doc/python-pylibmc/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/python-pylibmc/copyright
/usr/share/pyshared/pylibmc.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-pylibmc.public
(copied from http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/python-pylibmc/
filelist )
It appears that this package has not been built according to the
Debian Python Policy [1], because if it had been then it would have
automatically gotten the .egg-info file as generated by Python
distutils.
For now we have documented a special case in our code that if the
Python distribution you need is "pylibmc" and you are on Debian sid
then you manually install the operating system packaged named "python-
pylibmc", but this is an unsatisfying workaround, so I do hope we can
get the metadata added to the Debian package of pylibmc.
Regards,
Zooko
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/Policy
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