On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:04:24 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: reassign -1 pypy > Control: affects -1 pypy-py > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 03:09:51 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > a test with piuparts revealed that your package uses files from > > /usr/share/doc in its maintainer scripts which is a violation of > > Policy 12.3: "Packages must not require the existence of any files in > > /usr/share/doc/ in order to function." > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#additional-documentation > > This appears to be a bug in /usr/bin/pypycompile that is not present in > py3compile or pycompile: it fails if a file listed in the package cannot > be byte-compiled because it does not exist. > > The attached source package is a nearly-minimal test case. To have more > clarity about what it's doing, the postinst and prerm are hard-coded > instead of being generated by dh_pywhatever, but I believe they're > equivalent to what dh_pywhatever would produce. > > I can install the Python 2 and 3 versions successfully: > > $ sudo dpkg --path-exclude='/usr/share/doc/*' -i > ../python3-test904521_1_all.deb > Selecting previously unselected package python3-test904521. > (Reading database ... 448270 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../python3-test904521_1_all.deb ... > Unpacking python3-test904521 (1) ... > Setting up python3-test904521 (1) ... > > but not the pypy version: > > $ sudo dpkg --path-exclude='/usr/share/doc/*' -i ../pypy-test904521_1_all.deb > Selecting previously unselected package pypy-test904521. > (Reading database ... 448288 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack ../pypy-test904521_1_all.deb ... > Unpacking pypy-test904521 (1) ... > Setting up pypy-test904521 (1) ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pypycompile", line 100, in <module> > main() > File "/usr/bin/pypycompile", line 93, in main > py_compile.compile(module, doraise=True) > File "/usr/lib/pypy/lib-python/2.7/py_compile.py", line 105, in compile > with open(file, 'U') as f: > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/usr/share/doc/pypy-test904521/examples/test904521.py' > dpkg: error processing package pypy-test904521 (--install): > installed pypy-test904521 package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > pypy-test904521 > > > These files must be moved to /usr/share/$PACKAGE and may be symlinked > > from /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE. > > Since they seem to be only examples anyway, it would be a better solution > for them to be byte-compiled conditionally (if they exist) instead of > unconditionally, or not byte-compiled at all. I think addressing this in > pypy-py would just be working around a bug in pypycompile. > > smcv
Hi Stefano, Any update on this bug? Thanks, ~Niels
