Joey Hess writes: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 02:37 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > Package: debhelper > > > > > > The following patch adds python-central support in debhelper. The > > > current behaviour is unchanged, so it doesn't break existing packages. > > > > Please, dh_python is already as complicated as it is. Couldn't you make > > it an entirely separate script?
My intention is to have the easiest solution for maintainers of python packages. A transparent dh_python does that. In the meantime I do provide dh_pycentral in the python-central package. > Why does debhelper need to support two different ways of managing python > modules at all? Why can't they all use python-central if that is the way > to go? The pythonX.Y packages do use python-central (see incoming). Indeed one system would be easier to manage. Matthias
