[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] Bug#459716: sympy: Please split pyglet into a separate package

Michael Hanke michael.hanke at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 10:38:46 UTC 2008


Hi Ondrej,

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:33:00AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
<snip>
> > However, soon PyEPL will depend on pyglet and I don't think that a
> > package dependency on sympy is the proper way to deal with it.
> >
> > I'd be glad if we could discuss possible ways to go on from here.
> 
> No, the proper way, of course, is to package pyglet separately. We
> include it in sympy
> just because we include it in the upstream tarball (so that it's
> selfcontained), but
> in Debian we should create a separate package for pyglet. I just didn't have
> time to do it.
> 
> So if you package pyglet, that'd be awesome.
Right, so I'll continue with out packaging and file an ITP next ;-)

> We prepared the sympy upstream tarball in a way, so that it's easy to
> just delete
> the pyglet in debian/rules and depend on the one in Debian.
Cool.

> (There are actually some subtle issues, like that we need to have the latest
> svn version of pyglet in sympy, due to some bugs in pyglet, that were fixed
> recently, but this will settle in time.)
Good to know. Thanks for the information.

Could you drop me a note when pyglet upstream does a release that works
with Debian sympy? But probably this will just be the next one... uscan
will notify ;-)


Thanks,

Michael

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