Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-20 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:29, Matthias Klose wrote: > Donovan Baarda writes: > > The things that need resolving, in no particular order; > > > > 1) moving /usr/lib/python* into /usr/share/python*. I consider this low > > priority, but something that should be done one day. There are possibly > > so

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-19 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
Donovan Baarda wrote: 1) moving /usr/lib/python* into /usr/share/python*. I consider this low priority, but something that should be done one day. There are possibly some issues with separating binary extension modules from .py python modules that would to be resolved. This doesn't work. /usr/lib/p

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-19 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > The things that need resolving, in no particular order; > > 1) moving /usr/lib/python* into /usr/share/python*. I consider this low > priority, but something that should be done one day. There are possibly > some issues with separating binary extension modules from .py pyt

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-19 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 19:54, Matthias Klose wrote: > [...] > > And/or take a look at dh_python, which does all this for "free"... > > BTW, where can we find this? I'd like to take a look. Included in debhelper.

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 08:09, Matthias Klose wrote: > Bastian Kleineidam writes: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > > > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-poli

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 19:54, Matthias Klose wrote: [...] > And/or take a look at dh_python, which does all this for "free"... BTW, where can we find this? I'd like to take a look. -- Donovan Baardahttp://minkirri.ap

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Bastian Kleineidam writes: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz (that is shipped > > > with the "python" package).

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz (that is shipped > > with the "python"

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:22:11 +0200 Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I would like to use the debconf-module, but it seems there is no > > python priority:required, so is this module worthless? > > Please, be careful using debconf: you'd better read the "best > pack

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis writes: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > 1) Should I ship .py or .pyc or both in the package. Byte-compile at > > install time? Ask user what to do? > > Ok, just saw a few other messages on this, my conclusion: > > Byte-compile at

Re: python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > 1) Should I ship .py or .pyc or both in the package. Byte-compile at > install time? Ask user what to do? > Ok, just saw a few other messages on this, my conclusion: > Byte-compile at install time > But how do I force the .py to get

python-debconf, Byte compilation and other questions

2003-04-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I'm trying to create a package of a program that's written in python (web2ldap). I think I already have it working OK, but having no prior python experience I have a few questions. Oh, btw, I checked the archives, and found out that some of these issues have been discussed already, but I coul