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Re: Separate lib and executable packages?

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On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 08:54:27PM +0100, Ondrej Novy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so 8. 2. 2020 v 20:51 odesílatel Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> napsal:
> 
> > Perhaps this is worth making an explicit recommendation for new packages
> > of this type, given that anything new _should_ be python3-only and we
> >
> 
> and what about pypy- prefix?

That's a good point.

Probably not many packages are likely to provide pypy{,3} invoking binaries
(ipython is probably actually a good candidate here) and so it probably
counts as an exceptional case which can reasonably bypass a recommendation.

I suppose you could:

 * Not ship any executables which invoke pypy. For pypy3, that appears
   to be the case today (nothing in /usr/bin using pypy3 except the
   interpreter itself).
 * Ship the library and python3 executable together (possibly with a
   Provides: for the executable), and the pypy3 executable in a
   separate package (since the library itself presumably
   doesn't want to depend on pypy3, and might need to depend on
   pypy-specific library packages). This saves 1 binary package but
   seems inconsistent. The actual implementation could be picked with
   update-alternatives.
 * Ship library, python3 executable and pypy3 executable separately.
   This seems more consistent but generates an extra binary package.

This is probably a good case to consider in this thread because ipython
and ipykernel are probably reasonable cases where a pypy-specialised
executable might make sense, and ipython at least depends only on
pure-python modules which work out-of-the-box with pypy.

> 
> -- 
> Best regards
>  Ondřej Nový

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Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-07 12:50 +0100
  Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-07 13:50 +0100
  Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2020-02-07 17:10 +0100
    Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-08 04:20 +0100
      Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-08 14:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-08 15:30 +0100
      Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-08 21:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-08 21:20 +0100
          Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-11 11:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-09 04:10 +0100

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