[Python-modules-team] Removing w32 specific Python code from a package

[Adeodato Simó]

* Stephan Peijnik [Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:07:40 +0100]:

> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:27 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > * Stephan Peijnik [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:46:58 +0100]:

> > > Now as python-pyglet needs to be repacked because it is not entirely
> > > free anyways I thought I could get rid of this problem by simply
> > > removing the w32-specifics when repackaging the dfsg version of the
> > > tarball.

> > What about just not installing into the .deb the windows-specific files?

> I file a bug-report upstream and asked them to fix that in their
> setup.py. Maybe I could remove that code in the "build" target of
> debian/rules. Is that what you suggested?

More in the "binary", but something like that, yes:

    setup.py install
    rm -f debian/python-pyglet/usr/share/.../bad.py
    ...

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