[Python-modules-team] Bug#700994: Bug#700997: Bug#700995: Solving directory vs. symlink conflict: /usr/include/python3.2

[Vincent Cheng]

[Adding python3.2's maintainer, as well as #701071 and #701045, to cc:]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:32:45 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>
>> On 2013-02-22 08:51, Vincent Cheng closed #700997:
>> >    * [...] distutils in Debian now
>> >      takes care of installing headers into the right location as of python3.2
>> >      (>= 3.2.3-7), so add a build-dep on that [...]
>>
>> Maybe a solution for the other packages, too.
>>
> Sounds like all of these bugs should be reassigned to python3.2-dev
> then, and closed?

Someone first has to manually check that these packages use distutils
(look for something along the lines of "python setup.py install
--install-layout=deb" in debian/rules) and doesn't move around stuff
manually in debian/rules or elsewhere; binNMUs should then be safe
(although I still think source uploads to get python3.2-dev (>=
3.2.3-7) added to build-depends of each of these packages should be
done). I'll get around to looking at the rest of these bugs
(eventually), as they should be easy to fix in the above holds true.

Andreas, if I understood your analysis of #700782 correctly, the
hypothetical situation that an user unpacks any of the affected
packages (or an older version prior to being rebuilt against
python3.2-dev (>= 3.2.3-7)) before python3.2-dev to trigger this bug
still exists, right? In that case, python3.2-dev should probably still
add a Conflicts: relationship with all of the affected packages; I
wonder if Matthias might have anything to say about this?

Regards,
Vincent