Bug#635476: Bug#721676: python-coverage: Treat report resources as architecture-independent data

2013-09-08 Thread Ben Finney
On 03-Sep-2013, Ben Finney wrote: > Further reading of the Distutils documentation leads me to the following > unpleasant conclusion: > > * The ‘package_data’ option causes files to be installed alongside the > Python code. This is wrong for these non-Python-specific data files, > since they a

Bug#721676: python-coverage: Treat report resources as architecture-independent data

2013-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
On 03-Aug-2013, Ben Finney wrote: > On 02-Aug-2013, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > lintian on the resulting .debs produces: > > > > W: python3-coverage: image-file-in-usr-lib > > usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/coverage/htmlfiles/keybd_closed.png > > W: python3-coverage: image-file-in-usr-lib > > usr/lib

Bug#721676: python-coverage: Treat report resources as architecture-independent data

2013-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Package: src:python-coverage Version: 3.4-3 Severity: normal The Python setup program for Coverage treats the static resources for HTML reports (the files in ‘coverage/htmlfiles/’) as “package data”, to be installed alongside the Python package. This is a violation of FHS 2.3, §4. The Python libr