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[Gediminas Paulauskas]

Hello Barry,

good to see someone willing to work!


2014-06-17 16:51 GMT+03:00 Barry Warsaw <barry at debian.org>:

> On Jun 17, 2014, at 02:54 PM, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> >I agree, python-van.pydeb predates and should be replaced by pybuild
> >wherever possible. A few years ago, when I looked at pybuild the only
> >deficiency it had was properly supporting setuptools extras (see
> >zope.component).
>
> I'm not familiar with that problem, so I don't know if it still exists or
> not.
> pybuild is generally awesome these days, and Piotr is pretty responsive to
> suggestions.  E.g. he's going to try to make it easier to use for Python 3
> packages which don't start with "python3-".
>

I don't see any support for setuptools extras in pybuild.

There are two more things that van.pydeb does:
1) map python <-> source <-> binary package names
2) translate version requirements from setup.py to ${pydeb:Depends}


>
> >Removing python-van.pydeb usage has probably been on my TODO list for 3
> >years or so...
>
> Excellent!  I'll upload what I have and we'll be one step closer. :)
>

Nothing was being uploaded for a while, so there are many changes waiting
for upload already.

I will check if there was any further changes in ubuntu and update.

-- 
Gediminas
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