On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 20:23 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > +  * Use --standard-lib to install scons stuff into standard python dirs
> 
> I would be more inclined to make scons an alternative than move it into
> the standard directory if doing anything with this.  Do you have any
> particular reason for wanting to do this beyond neatness?

Main reason was to silence lintian. Other reasons would be to make scons
classes available to other apps, and to allow byte-compiling the .py
files into .pyo and .pyc so scons is faster (I think dh_python adds a
snippet to postinst to do that automatically). 

> I've removed the patch tag since I'd prefer to fix the man page thing
> differently by post-processing the installed image - I try to avoid
> peering inside upstream build systems too much since that is more
> fragile with regard to perfectly reasonable upstream changes.

Fair enough.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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