Packaging a twistd plugin and python-support issues

[Andreas Hasenack]

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Hi,

I'm packaging a twisted plugin (https://launchpad.net/txstatsd) for
Lucid (so no dh_python2 for me) and ran into an issue with
python-support that I would like some advice about.

If I don't create a ".noinit" file in the twisted plugin directory,
python-support will create an empty __init__.py file in there in
postinst. When that happens, twistd no longer sees the plugin.

I can't package a ".noinit" file with every plugin package, as they will
conflict.

I see a few alternatives, and would like some advice:

a) Check for the ".noinit" file presence in postinst, and create if
necessary, before the python-support "update-python-modules" is called.
Also make sure there is no __init__.py file in there, deleting it if needed.

b) Use python-central. I tried it and it works right out of the box. But
this is deprecated, right? Well, so is python-support, but -central is
"more" deprecated I think ;)

c) anything else?

Thanks!


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Andreas Hasenack
andreas at canonical.com

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