dh_python2 and /usr/share/pyshared in quantal

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 09:22:09 AM Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:50:51AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Almost forgot ...
> > 
> > It seems to me that making changes that are known to break other packages
> > to gather data is not consistent with the stated goal of keeping the
> > development release in a functional state at ~all times.
> > 
> > I disagree that direct references to pyshared are a bug of any kind.
> > 
> > Also, Julian's list was limited to dpmt/papt packages which is a subset of
> > packages that are affected by this.  IIRC, there are ~400 packages in
> > those teams, so it hits ~10% of dh_python2 packages based on that sample.
> > That's a lot.
> 
> Between this and the observation that it's resulting in misbuilt packages,
> I think the right thing to do is revert the change for now while the
> discussion is ongoing.  If in the end there's a solution that lets us gather
> information in the archive without causing package misbuilds, we can
> consider re-introducing that; or we can do test rebuilds in a ppa for this
> information.  But we should not be misbuilding packages in the main archive
> purely as an information-gathering exercise.

Thanks.  Done.

I do not have time to go back and look at what packages are affected by this, 
but someone should.

Scott K