[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#797675: RFS: pbalign (NEW)

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi, Andreas,

On الأحد  6 أيلول 2015 06:27, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Afif,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 02:13:12AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> 
>> The binary package is still called python-pbalign
>> because it does include public python modules..
> 
> Does not sound logical.  Assume there might be some python3-pbalign
> sooner or later.  Then you want to provide both python-pbalign and
> python3-pbalign.  Where do you want to put the scripts then?  So if you
> ask me spliting the commandline tools to a separate package pbalign
> would be the best solution even now.
>  

I thought about this, but the reason I didn't do it is that the scripts
are basically just wrappers around the library. A python3 version would
then have its own version of the scripts.

I suppose this could be made to work by making the pbalign package
depend on python-pbalign, which would contain the libraries, while then
ignoring any of the scripts from a python3 version of the package. I
like this way better because the use case of the package as a library is
a very uncommon one-- and the API is not really documented, either. All
documentation is for the command-line use case.

So I'll try this and report back.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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