package python-daemon tags 544391 + upstream confirmed retitle 544391 Package-specific unit test suite should not be installed thanks
Ralf Treinen wrote: > automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the > same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has > detected the following problem: […] > Selecting previously deselected package python-zhpy. > Unpacking python-zhpy (from .../python-zhpy_1.7.2-1_all.deb) ... > Selecting previously deselected package python-daemon. > Unpacking python-daemon (from .../python-daemon_1.4.6-1_all.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-daemon_1.4.6-1_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pyshared/tests/__init__.py', which is also > in package python-zhpy […] > > This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible > solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the > common file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from > one package and have this package depend on the other package. File > diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility. I think the best solution is for neither package to install the unit test suite (or, at least, not install it outside a package-specific directory). In the ‘python-daemon’ package, this needs to be fixed upstream by causing the distribution's ‘setup’ to exclude the unit test suite from installation. The ‘setup.py’ should have the following change: - packages=find_packages(), + packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests"]), Something like this is probably the best solution for ‘python-zhpy’ as well. -- \ “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code | `\ will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” —John | _o__) F. Woods | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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