[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#519966: hplip-data package contains .pyc files because of wrong dh_python

[Steve Langasek]

Package: hplip-data
Version: 3.9.2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: python policy 2.6
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch jaunty

Running 'debsums -s' on my system, I found a large number of checksum
mismatches for files under /usr/share/hplip.  The reason for this is that
hplip-data incorrectly ships a number of .pyc files within the package,
which has been a violation of python packaging policy as long as there has
been a python packaging policy.

The debian/rules for some reason calls dh_pysupport for the Architecture:
any packages, when hplip-data, containing the .py files, is an arch: all
package.  The attached patch fixes this so that the .py files are actually
registered with python-support.

The hplip.preinst code to remove all .pyc and .pyo files on upgrade of the
*hplip* package is probably also unnecessary with this change.  (Even if
it's not unnecessary, it is wrong.  The hplip package shouldn't be doing
anything with .pyc files originating with another binary package.)

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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