Josselin Mouette writes: > 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.
that's just wrong. it was decided to use the new schema; nothing more. I did point out that I will not support more than one system in the python packages. > 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. the patch is updated. Matthias
