Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: peter green Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.bugs.dist Subject: Re: Next python-mote pre-condition - issue with pybuild: python-backports.tempfile conflicting python-backports.weakref Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Original-To: Andreas Tille , debian-python@lists.debian.org, debian-science@lists.debian.org, 777089@bugs.debian.org, olivier.sallou@irisa.fr X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Jan 25 17:54:46 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.01 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 X-Greylist: delayed 525 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:54:34 UTC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15481 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5a235cb3-46fb-8231-f3bf-5da74fe0f319@p10link.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 3 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:45:33 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <5a235cb3-46fb-8231-f3bf-5da74fe0f319@p10link.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10086 linux.debian.bugs.dist:877667 > However, in Debian case, I do not know how this can be handled as 2 packages cannot hold the same file (even if __init__ is only an empty file), and at least one must be present (if you install only one). I'm not a python expert but I expect the least-horrible way to do this would be to ship a package that only contained the __init__. Then have all the python-backports.* packages depend on it.