[Python-apps-team] Bug#516269: mercurial: FTBFS with python-support in experimental

[Josselin Mouette]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.1.2-2

Hi,

The mercurial rules file contains the following:
binary-install/mercurial::
        pysupport-movemodules debian/mercurial
        # remove arch-independent python stuff
        rm -rf $(CURDIR)/debian/mercurial/usr/share/python-support

binary-install/mercurial-common::
        pysupport-movemodules debian/mercurial-common
        # remove arch-dependent python stuff
        rm -rf $(CURDIR)/debian/mercurial-common/usr/lib/python-support
        rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $(CURDIR)/debian/mercurial-common/usr/lib

With the upcoming version of python-support (currently in experimental),
such statements will make the package FTBFS, since the files are now
moved to a different directory (/usr/share/pyshared). Furthermore, the
pysupport-movemodules tool has been moved to a private directory and is
not usable directly anymore.

If you really want to keep working this way, we can synchronize an
upload with that of the new python-support version, but it would be
better to do things a different way instead. I suggest to use
debian/*.install files or to loop over files in
debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/site-packages instead.

As a general rule, please do not rely on the internals of python-support
in the packaging; this will avoid such issues in the future (although
hopefully there won’t be a need to change the paths any further).

Thanks,
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