Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Several questions regarding package tifffile Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue May 22 13:01:37 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MEDS2=2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15980 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20180522130036.smr3gkinlh6en4wf@an3as.eu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 46 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-python X-Original-Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:00:36 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20180522130036.smr3gkinlh6en4wf@an3as.eu> X-Original-References: <20180409074552.ekpox2znpo6pdixn@an3as.eu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10574 Hi Ghislain, On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 08:39:00AM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Le lun. 9 avr. 2018 à 08:46, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > I realised that upstream of tifffile[1] switched to Python3. When > > inspecting the package I somehow think that its main purpose is rather a > > user application than a Python module and thus I would rather rename the > > binary from python-tifffile to tifffile than python3-tifffile. What do > > you think? > > > > As per [2] I added dh-python to the Build-Depends but it seems I would > > need python-minimal in addition to get /usr/bin/pyversions. For me it > > is a bit strange to realise that this basic functionality is not provided > > by dh-python "Depends: python-minimal". Am I missing something? > > > > It also seems that a Build-Depends: python3-distutils and if I add it it > > tries to do "python setup.py clean -a" which is stupid since there is no > > setup.py (and also no python but only python3). I wonder whether I'm > > missing something here as well in this very simple package which does > > not seem to work well with dh-python. > > > > BTW, I'd be *really* happy if somebody from Python team would take over > > this package into Python packaging team. I just adopted it from a > > former Debian Med team member but it is not Debian Med specific at all > > and I have no real interest in this package. > > > > I could have a look at it. Did you manage to do this? > Do you reckon why the package was needed > originally? I am surprised it landed in d-med, so perhaps there is another > package needing it? No idea. It was started by Mathieu Malaterre who left the team. Feel free to move to DPMT. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de