[py-dev] Intent To Package (ITP) for Debian

[Bob Tanner]

Hello upstream developers of pylib. 

I'm working on a debian package for pylib and have some feedback. 

Please do not take any of my comments personally. I'm just trying to make my 
job easier :-) at the same time make recommendations on how to make pylib 
more Debian compliant.

1. svn snapshot from 2005/11/11 has .gif/.png in /usr/lib, according to 
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) architecture-independent files need to be 
placed within /usr/share instead

2. Finding python scripts that by default aren't executable on installation, 
should these scripts be executable?

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/compat/testing/_findpy.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/compat/testing/test_optparse.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/misc/cmdline/countloc.py

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/compat/testing/_findpy.py and 
/usr/bin/_findpy.py  (see below) look to be the same script, can one or the 
other be removed?

3. The install puts /usr/bin/pytest.cmd in place on linux, this looks to be a 
DOS batch file, I don't think it should be installed when the os is linux.

4. Debian requires anything in /usr/bin to have a manpage. I have found 
help2man to be very useful and maintaining manpages from the -h (--help) and 
-v (--version) of the program.

/usr/bin/_findpy.py         
/usr/bin/py.cleanup   
/usr/bin/py.lookup 
/usr/bin/py.test
/usr/bin/_makepyrelease.py  
/usr/bin/py.countloc  
/usr/bin/py.rest    

I'd also like feedback on the _findpy.py and _makepyrelease.py, should they be 
in a "production" package or are the development tools? The underscore breaks 
Debian executable naming policy.

5. Good news is even with the Debian "problems"  the code works great.

$ py.test test/
<snip>
tests finished: 138 passed in 19.18 seconds


I'm happy to submit patches if you are willing to accept them for review. I 
much rather have things put into upstream code then maintain separate patches 
for Debian.

Look forward to your (collective) responses.

Thanks.

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