On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Thomas Schraitle
Hi,
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2) Can you investigate how this issue solve in other distributions? It would be nice to have consistent solution and not reinvent wheel. Maybe some distribution have clean solution to it.
To give you some help, here is the Python packaging guide from Fedora and Ubuntu:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Python
To be more specific, here is the relevant portion of the fedora guidelines and the mailing list discussion on the issue: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Executables_in_.2Fusr.2Fbin http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/129217.html Their approach is the same as my suggestion 2, except that they only do it on a case-by-case basis rather than having general rules. I already explained the problems I have with this approach. Note that they made the decision to move entirely to python 3 and ditch python 2 support, which I don't think has been decided here yet. I don't see anything in the Ubuntu link about this issue, in fact it doesn't mention python3 at all, nor does a google search turn up anything obvious. I have not been able to find any ubuntu packages with files in /usr/bin at all, they might delete them or put them elsewhere. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org