[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sun Dec 3 19:28:41 CET 2006

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:27:09PM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:

In both the current Debian and Ubuntu releases, the "python2.4" binary package includes distutils.

Ah, distutils are distributed in the base package now, but not the 'config' subdirectory of a standard library's normal installation, which makes distutils a bit useless.

I should go and file a bug, I guess. The reason why I did not do it so far, is that the fact that no one did tends to show that they really think distributing 'config' is not the "right" thing to do. A reasoning along the lines of: "this subdir contains include files, so it should go in the python-dev package". I'm not too interested in fighting this kind of preconception.

A bientot,

Armin.

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