[Debian-med-packaging] Review and sponsoring request: pymia (Python module)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Gert,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:29:04PM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:
> Hello Andreas, 
> 
> > when trying to build the package the dh_auto_clean target requires a lot
> > of packages - it now failed with
> > 
> >    No package 'mia3d-2.0' found
> 
> This is the call to pkg-config in setup.py  that is invoked
> unconditionally.  For cleaning it is certainly not necessary, but for
> building, 'pkg-config' should find 'mia3d-2.0' since it is provided by
> the build dependency libmia-2.0-dev. 

Sure - this is ensured by pbuilder dependency resolution.  I just want
to avoid that my system from where I call pdebuild also would need all
Build-Depends.

> > I wonder whether the Debian Python people have invented
> > something that keeps setup.py from doing crazy and insane things instead
> > of just noticing that the build tree is just clean.
> I've dug a bit through the pybuild code, and the call to 
> 'setup.py clean' seems to be deep inside and unconditional. 
> I added an  "override_dh_auto_clean" to replace it by just deleting the
> build directories.  Unless I figure out how to override the clean
> command in setup.py, I don't think I can do much better. 

It builds fine now with pdebuild without installing a lot of additional
packages - so I will upload that way.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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