[Python-apps-team] Bug#620087: mercurial: /usr/bin/hg prepends /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ to sys.path

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Stefano Rivera <stefanor at debian.org> [20110330 00:30]:
> It's caused by the python2.5 install happening before the 2.6 one, and
> the 2.6 one doesn't replace the hg script from the 2.5 install. (It
> would if we supplied --force)

Mercurial's Makefile always uses --force for this and a few other
reaons, but ...

> -            'install_scripts': hginstallscripts}
> +# Disabled on Debian. We install into the public namespace and don't need
> +# to hack sys.path.
> +#            'install_scripts': hginstallscripts}

... with the comment this looks good, too.

Maybe it would be good to change hginstallscripts upstream so it
doesn't do @LIBDIR@ magic if this would be in the public namespace?
How can this be detected in a reliable way?

Regards,
Thomas

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