dh_python2 and /usr/share/pyshared in quantal

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Wed May 23 01:54:07 UTC 2012


On 23.05.2012 02:50, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On May 22, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> This is a really excellent point.

no, not that excellent. For larger changes we do these changes in the archive,
like the glib header changes during the late precise cycle, which can but have
not to be reverted later.

>> I disagree that direct references to pyshared are a bug of any kind.
> 
> Fair enough.

again, any use of pyshared in sys.path is a bug.

  Matthias



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