[py3porters-devel] Bug#782958: Please provide a python3 module

[Ben Finney]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:19:03PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> It's probably good enough if you can just point me to "a" package with
> debian/rules and debian/control which also builds 2.8 amd 3.4 (or 3.3?).
> 
> As a non-Python jock I am a little out of the loop on what is de rigeur
> here.

Current Debian packaging for Python has converged on using Debhelper 9
or later, using Pybuild as a build system. That's what you'll find as
the strongly-recommended best practice today.


> I am sorry but that is overcomplicating matters a little in my book.
> This is a one-off alteration to debian/{rules,control}.

I think the conversion to use Debhelper 9 and Pybuild will be the
maintainable solution. Are you amenable to that?

I'm happy to hear opinions from others in the ‘py3porters-devel’ forum.

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Ben Finney