[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

Tue Jul 12 22:48:49 CEST 2011

philippe makowski a écrit :
+> Hi,
+>
+> remember this first draft (http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=python_policy)
+> that is still a draft
+>
+> now we have also Python3 so we really need to write our policy
+> I see mainly two majors points :
+>
+> 1/ pyc, pyo management
+> 2/ having Python2 and Python3
+>
+> about 1/ :
+> it seems that the best would be to package only py (smallest packages)
+> and having triggers on install and on remove to manage pyc and pyo
+> (That's in fact the Debian way
+> (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-byte_compilation))
+>
+> if we go this way, we need someone to write triggers and people to
+> review all Python packages
+> (I'm ok to work on that review, for triggers, I have no clue on how to
+> do, but may be that with some help I could try)
+
++1
+(Although I don't have any idea how to do it yet either, but would be willing 
+to try with some help, as well.)
+
+> about 2/ :
+>
+> again we have to review all Python packages to see if they run under
+> Python3 or not and to package them for Python2 and Python3
+> (I'm ok to work on that review)
+> may be that the Fedora policy can help us for that ?:
+> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python
+
+I think it would be very useful to have coexisting python2 & 3 (like fedora).
+
+-- 
+André
+