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Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code

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Hi Afif,

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 04:20:11PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm maintaining a set of python modules that have this pattern of code
> for finding compiled extensions (this example is from the kineticstools
> package):
>
> [...]
>
> When the package is built and the architecture is renamed:
>
> I: dh_python2 fs:322: renaming tree_predict.so to
> tree_predict.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
>
> the upstream code breaks. What I've done in the past is patch it so that
> it searches for the extension the way we rename it (which I get using
> sysconfig.get_config_var('MULTIARCH')) as in the patch at
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/pbh5tools.git/tree/debian/patches/multiarch-module-path.patch
>
> Is there a better way around this problem?

If it is not a Python extension but rather a generic plugin, you can tell
dh_python2 not to touch it (i.e. via the -X flag), or better install it to
some private directory different from dist-packages.

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org> - 2016-07-03 01:40 +0200
  Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-07-03 08:30 +0200
    Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Afif Elghraoui <afif@ghraoui.name> - 2016-07-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-07-04 17:30 +0200

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