[Python-apps-team] Bug#599567: cython Includes are not packaged

[Jérôme Petazzoni]

Package: cython
Version: 0.12.1-1.1
Severity: important


It seems that the cython package does not install the "Includes" directory.
Therefore, when trying to use it, we get almost immediately show-stopper errors
similar to the following:

/.../foo.pyx:42:0: 'cpython.pxd' not found

When installing cython "by hand" (from the tarball distributed on pypi), I
noticed that it installed a lot of extra files, which were missing from the
packaged .deb; notably a "Includes" directory which contains the above-
mentionned cpython.pxd file.

It seems that cython is almost (if not totally) unusable without those files
(except maybe in some trivial cases).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (666, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cython depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  python                        2.6.5-13   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support                1.0.3      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python2.6                     2.6.6-3    An interactive high-level object-o

cython recommends no packages.