Path: csiph.com!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.unit0.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Joseph Herlant Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Side effect of dropping python2 with -doc packages Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Aug 13 17:17:17 2019 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.749 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=903RAGlKq18VQS4x1wmDHwF8OtQ5qMio2xmj9aZQtAs=; b=rxbtEzfD5LkqYK1yVxJwMZYg5Qz9Ss+YH6s/daErSyUKK3QJEKX5K7Asd0FfgidOpk GLGd1I4TmeeAffcapQbE9DcKnA3FY0RJV2YiYAQQ9GfbLlDLstm/U8OKW4J19r3C7rks hKGeC6T4nS0goT8FGsiCx16KHMMCn3JL460PWZ08vKi0TMGEvx29braj+ehJK9nzB9SQ BFuT/zWpIhSmYggpluEafUOEOa2Sldh/bWkD64yhRRLIwkQF3glULPRKFBqcIHZUAIkT jsgA7Oj6Al8RDDLptixgHNp4D8GnBsj+0VHP/gWiPoWffDUlMSWAIgnAIMq/i5j19wEW P+2g== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWdLggwHCotMrrXOUs9wHRQZ4FfbERyIqkT/ZFtB23p9TvrYVEc SxkpqmTpKS3fHY3Y2NTmp0OoxsoI X-Google-SMTP-Source: APXvYqxol8XPgMso47S24ETe9eoZXOtWqJof+VKu2+CXKavCse5P8du1FepbnQ0Y+2hwMaVkunjwsQ== X-Received: by 2002:aa7:d916:: with SMTP id a22mr19348099edr.63.1565716624365; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a5d:62c1:: with SMTP id o1mr47838841wrv.293.1565716623948; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:17:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/17119 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAPQicOy1fS2y7ZXQXAoz5wu8m=LZ+a5jy9Hd6c=TSVODXm=J+Q@mail.gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 35 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:16:28 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11615 Hi guys, While tidying up some packages before taking some time off I realized that some packages like django-tables had binary packages that took the convention of creating -doc packages using -doc (a very long time ago). The result was the location of the doc changed from /usr/share/doc/python-django-tables2-doc to /usr/share/doc/python-django-tables2 with the bump to compat 11. But now that we dropped the python2 binary package we end up with the "main package" not being detected anymore and the doc moved back to /usr/share/doc/python-django-tables2-doc. The way I read the policy, it seems the -doc package should be -doc. Am I correct to read it this way? (it's not specified that it's binary but not source package either so I just want to make sure I get it right) I see several possibilities on how to handle that: * leave it as is and it's fine (but doesn't match Policy 12.3) * overwrite dh_installdocs to pass --doc-main-package * rename the -docs package to match -doc and have the ftp-master rm the old one * have dh_installdocs translate python into python3 package names when looking for the main package Which one do you think would be preferable? (I know there are multiple python package in this case so it would be interesting to have a consensus on how to handle it) Other preferable solutions? Thanks for your help, Joseph