[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#507186: Bug#507186: xen-utils-3.2-1 doesn't package the xen python library correctly

[Bastian Blank]

severity 507186 minor
tags 507186 wontfix
thanks

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:57:34AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Once installed, the python library of Xen are not in the python search path.
> Concequently, it's impossible to import anything from the xen-utils in another
> application.

I'm unaware that anything of this is public API. The public API is the
xmlrpc interface to xend.

>              The only way to fix it is to do:

You are free to extend the search path in your application.

> xen-utils-3.2-1 should in fact use the folder /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages,
> and not /usr/lib/xen-3.2.1.

No.

>                             By the way, there is no reason why somebody would
> want to have 2 version of xen-utils installed at the same time, on a single
> computer, IMHO (unless to do some tests, which is not a reason that apply to a
> distribution like Debian).

There are.

> Anyway what is the choice of the pkg-xen-devel team, something has to be done
> to fix the current situation, because it's breaking other packages that are
> using Xen and its python files.

Nothing which resides in /usr/lib/xen-* is stable API/ABI from our point
of view.

Setting it to wontfix because I don't see how this could be changed.

Bastian

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