[Python-modules-team] Bug#636526: Bug#636526: python-psutil: Patch to support Python3.

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Fri Jun 1 08:35:48 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Matthew Grant <matthewgrant5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The attached patch also closes Bug #637382, as dh_python2 and
> dhpython3 are required to effect the Python3 build.  In doing the guides on the Debian wiki:

No, sorry, introducing dh_python2 is not needed to introduce python3
support, since you can mix dh_pysupport and dh_python3 just fine. So
this is something I won't introduce in the packaging as of now.

> http://wiki.debian.org/Python/TransitionToDHPython2
>
> and
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide
>
> were followed.
>
> debian/rules was carefully merged with the example in the LibraryStyleGuide,
> debian/control updated.

I think it would have been better to have a minimal patch, instead of
trying to revamp the packaging.

> I did note the test_get_io_counters failure on all 3 versions of Python,
> and this maybe due to moving to the 3.2 kernel.  The Python3.2 test test_name
> failed due to the underlying python binary being 'python3.2mu' instead of
> 'python3.2' but these are definitely seperate bugs to the build bugs.

before introducing the py3k package I'd like to see comments from
upstream on them.

Regards,
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