[PyKDE] Debian eric3 package

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2004 16:16 schrieb Torsten Marek:
> Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina schrieb:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:12:22PM -0400, Kirill Lapshin wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>What is the status of debian package for Eric? Any unofficial
> >> packages out there? If nobody maintaining such a package, maybe
> >> someone has tools/instructions for creating one? Thanks.
> >
> > There's a package but I have no interest so far to maintain it
> > officialy, just because I don't use it any often (not that I don't
> > like it, it's a nice piece of software). You can get it from my repo
> > at people.debian.org, the package's name is "eric3".
> >
> > I sent the source package to a volunteer willing to maintain it some
> > months ago, but no answer so far (a case of RLS[1], I supposse).
> > Then I sent it to another one some weeks ago. Same result. There's a
> > third one (Torsten Marek) that have showed some interest on it, so I
> > think it's safe to say that he can take over the package the moment
> > he wants to. Torsten? You there?
>
> Yes, alive and kicking. I'm still willing to adopt it. Maybe you can
> give me some hints resp. thoughts about what you wanted to fix and
> I'll try to get one together until next week. There are some Python
> application packages in Debian, so I will try to keep to their
> structure. Just one question that comes to my mind. As far as I
> remember, eric3 byte-compiles its files on installation. Should the
> installation script be patched or bypassed completely, because
> byte-compilation is done by dh_python (and on Python upgrade, too)?
> There is also a Python policy, as far as I remember, I just can't find
> the link right now

If the package system does the installation job, there is no need to run 
eric3's installation script. If you need the capability to not have the 
modules byte compiled for building the package, just let me know and I 
will add a command line switch to skip this step.

>
> > If Torsten decline his previous offer, I'm open to other adoption
> > offers. My latest package is for Eric 3.4.1, but it needs some fixes
> > that I just realized a couple days ago. Anyway, before adopting it,
> > please, talk with me. There are a couple of things to point out
> > about the package.
>
> I would be most thankful for any hints.
>
> greetings
>
> Torsten

Detlev
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