Bug#414847: antlr: violates the new py policy

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:54:24PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Heya,
> >> the antlr package is violating the new py policy [1] as it provides a
> >> public extension to python, but neither provides python-antlr nor uses
> >> python-support or python-central to to bytecompile the modules at
> >> installation time.
> >>     
> >
> > Policies are not definitive rules, just guidelines. Providing an extra
> > package just for the python support would be too much, but I agree that
> > we have to use python-support or python-central.
> >   
> 
> I didn't think about an extra package, just a Provides:
> ${python:Provides} line in debian/control.

Thanks for this info. I will do this.


Cheers,
Michael
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