Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 13:24 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> 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?
> 
> 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?

It doesn't, and it was decided at debconf to use python-support for
python modules. The python-support enabled script is already in the SVN
repository, although still missing a few features.

Anyway, Matthias' dh_python isn't backwards-compatible, so in the case
you decide to move to it anyway, there should be a transition period
during which both of them are available.
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