[Bulk] Re: [SCM] dmedia/master: Add more substvar usage in debian/control

Alessio Treglia alessio at debian.org
Wed Jan 12 14:57:37 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Also, I heard rumors that switching from one Python helper to another may
>> require special transitioning code in preinst/postinst.  Not sure about the
>> details - would appreciate pointers if anyone else knows.
>
> This is true when switching from python-support to python-central,
> moving the packaging from python-support to dh_python2 does not need
> that.

Adopting dh_python2 on a new package now will ease the future
transition (which should happen in Squeeze+1) to the newer helpers
generation.


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