On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:42 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped > > with python but python-devel. (like Fedora) > > This practice is stupid anyway, because it means you have to install > python-devel even to install pure Python packages with setuptools/distribute. > Just ask Fedora, Mandriva and friends to change their packaging practice > (Mandriva already has a bug open for that by the way). > > In Debian/Ubuntu, the Makefile is correctly part of the main Python package: > > $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile > python2.5: /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile For what it's worth, this is fixed in Fedora as of python-2.6.4-2.fc13 ; the bug tracking it was: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531901
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