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

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Tue Feb 2 09:18:15 UTC 2010


Hi Andrea,

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 09:49, A Mennucc <debdev at tonelli.sns.it> wrote:
> 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!

yeah,. it took me a while to realize I should diff the contents of NMU
and this new upload.

>> (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

Yeah, probably; there's some reference to it in README of
python-support package; you might want to ask the maintainer about it.

>> 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

great!

>>        ....
>>        echo "# let it installed by recent python-support" >
>> picard/plugins/__init__.py
>
> (btw , the above is not correct English)

yeah... :(  (missing 'be') that's what late-evening packaging generates

>> 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

:)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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