[Piuparts-devel] sort-issues-by-rdep prep

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-04-07 20:34, Dave Steele wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Is there a reason for piatti to run from /org (or /sys), going
> forward? You've jumped through a number of hoops to have piatti
> coexist with a stock install, including the need for PYTHONPATH, shell
> wrappers, and variable substitution in dozens of files. Meanwhile, the
> standard packages were left in a broken state for over a year because
> of the issue. Maintaining the git mode means you have two independent
> product suites to test and maintain (three if any piuparts-* packages
> are installed on piatti or your test systems). You've got an
> opportunity to do structural rework with the VM migration. It is worth
> consideration.

I'm in favor for keeping the git mode, it is much easier for developing
and testing bleeding edge from git than building and installing packages
for every single change. And doing a make install with prefix=/usr to
get rid of PYTHONPATH is a no-go!

Mixing git and .debs should not be done or get support.

> In the meantime, I'll add the wrapper,

I think we can skip the wrapper, since it works reasonalby if called
from the generate_daily_report script. So only manually calling dwke is
broken in a from-git setup, but that is used rather rare and than we can
set PYTHONPATH manually.

> and revert the 2.7 requirement
> (once there is a final call on Holger's subsequent comment on whether
> it is to be reverted).

I'd like to see the current code running on piatti, and for now that
would mean we need to stick to 2.6.


Andreas