[ubuntu/oneiric] zope.interface 3.6.1-1ubuntu1 (Accepted)

[Matthias Klose]

On 09/15/2011 06:08 PM, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> 2011/9/15 Matthias Klose <matthias.klose at canonical.com>:
>>  On 09/15/2011 05:00 PM, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
>>> zope.interface (3.6.1-1ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low
>>>
>>>   * debian/rules: no longer install zope/__init__.py, dh_python2 will create
>>>     it for us.
>>>
>>
>> pretty please, can we revert this immediately? There is absolutely *no* reason
>> to do that.
>> We didn't make that whole conversion to not create files on installation time,
>> just to introduce it for another class of files again.
>>
>>   Matthias
> 
> This finishes the solving of the whole problem of namespace
> __init__.py files. There is no longer a need for one package to
> install that file.
> 
> This is part of transition to dh_python2.

No. Definitely not. The blueprint speaks about not installing files at
configuration time, not about transitioning to dh_python2. It is the
non-availability of files at configuration time which turns out to be
problematic, for python daemons, triggers, and so on.

> It also fixes an awful problem in oneiric, if schooltool is installed:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zope.interface/+bug/851038
> 
> Bad timing, I understand.

It's not just the timing, it's bad.