Bug#606791: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 14:14 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> Which would also mean firing dpkg-trigger in python-xpcom.postinst, too.
> 
> This all looks like overcomplication to circumvent an imho design flaw in
> python packages. 

Call it a design flaw, but no package is expected to actually work
before its postinst has been executed. That is the policy.

> Unfortunately, except if I drop python-support use
> entirely (which could even mean going against the python policy, but I
> don't remember the details of it wrt modules location), there's nothing
> else I can do.

You can use dh_python2 which does what you want, but AFAIK it’s not the
recommended tool for squeeze.

Cheers,
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