Bug#414847: antlr: violates the new py policy

[Michael Koch]

tag 414847 +confirmed
thanks

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:05:47AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Package: antlr
> Version: 2.7.6-7
> Severity: important
> 
> Heya,
> 
> the antlr package is violating the new py policy [1] as it provides a
> public extension to python, but neither provides python-antlr nor uses
> python-support or python-central to to bytecompile the modules at
> installation time.

Policies are not definitive rules, just guidelines. Providing an extra
package just for the python support would be too much, but I agree that
we have to use python-support or python-central.

Thanks for your report.


Cheers,
Michael
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