Bug#414847: antlr: violates the new py policy

Bernd Zeimetz bernd at bzed.de
Wed Mar 14 12:54:24 CET 2007


Heya,
>> the antlr package is violating the new py policy [1] as it provides a
>> public extension to python, but neither provides python-antlr nor uses
>> python-support or python-central to to bytecompile the modules at
>> installation time.
>>     
>
> Policies are not definitive rules, just guidelines. Providing an extra
> package just for the python support would be too much, but I agree that
> we have to use python-support or python-central.
>   

I didn't think about an extra package, just a Provides:
${python:Provides} line in debian/control.

Cheers,

Bernd




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