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Re: [trinity-devel] pytdeextensions FTBFS on debian/testing and patch

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 21:48:48 +0200
On Monday 02 of September 2013 13:57:46 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> Hi there,
> today I run into a FTBFS when building libraries/pytdeextensions on
> debian/testing (jessie). The package actually compiles, but the building
> process actually fails after that when invoking "dh_python".
>
> dh_python -ppytdeextensions-trinity��
> make: dh_python: Command not found
>
> I tracked down the problem to be in the file
> "debian/python-distutils-jaunty.mk", where "dh_python2" needs to be invoked
> instead of "dh_python" and prepared a patch for it.
>
>
> While looking at the problem I also spotted that the patch
> "11_fix_get_libdir_name.diff" was out-of-sync with the code by 63 lines, so
> I updated the patch to point to the correct line.
>
> With both patches, the package builds correctly.
> I don't know if you are having the same problem I had. The nightly built
> package is not ready at the time of writing (it is schedule for building in
> a few hours), so I can't compare.
>
> I don't know whether the patch for "dh_python" breaks the building for
> debian/wheezy, since last year I didn't have any problem compiling in such
> environment. If so, a separate entry needs to be created in the
> tde-packaging for
>
> debian/jessie (instead of pointing to wheezy) and the patch added to the
> "libraries/pytdeextensions" files.
>
> Cheers
> � Michele

Well done. I like to look at it, because just a few days ago I converted other 
python packages to dh_python2 and at this time I have put down 
pytdeextensions to later...

Slavek
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