[Pkg-freevo-maint] converting freevo to python-support

A Mennucc debdev at tonelli.sns.it
Tue Feb 2 08:49:27 UTC 2010


hi,

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:36:58AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hello Andrea,
> 
> > The converted version is in the latest SVN. It fails to load some modules.
> > May you give it a look? I probably do not understand some fine points in
> > python modules management...
> 
> I've giving it a look. I would be helpful, just as a starting point,
> if you can detail what modules are not loading after switching to
> python-support. For what I can see the switched version doesn't have
> these files:
> 
[...]

thats it! I did not notice that they were was missing!

> (so importing those modules will fail). That's because those
> __init__.py files are empty, and so python-support removes it (there
> are cases when you don't want them: more bin pkgs sharing the same
> namespace, so no __init__.py in any of those packages).

but there are cases when you do want them ...
so it would be better if python-support would install

and IMHO the default should be to install them : Principle
of Least Surprise 

> if you need
> them, just add a comment in those files and they'll be installed and
> the modules will be available again.

I'll try this evening, time permitting

>        ....
>        echo "# let it installed by recent python-support" >
> picard/plugins/__init__.py

(btw , the above is not correct English)

> There are also several lintian warnings you might want to address (it
> makes the package easier to review :) ).

I will

> Also, since I pass there by, you might want to remove the installation
> of linda overrides: linda has gone since a couple of years (at least)
> :) .

thanks for noticing

a.




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