[Python-Dev] understanding ubuntu's patches to cpython (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Mon Nov 17 01🔞36 CET 2014

In article <CAPQx2vfoNWaTeOb=TkftLc9ZVP-mtL7tPFcCt16T=9G+X+VWcA at mail.gmail.com>, Buck Evan <buck.2019 at gmail.com> wrote:

This particular patch caused virtualenv issue #118 and a subsequent workaround: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/python2.7/trusty/vi ew/head:/debian/patches/distutils-install-layout.diff#L281 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/python2.7/trusty-p_ _roposed/view/head:/debian/patches/distutils-install-layout.diff#L281>

Although this patch sits on the trusty branch of cpython patckaging, in point of fact on that line i have return_ _os.path.join(getconfigvar('LIBPL'), "Makefile"). I see that other patches in the same project also touch this line, but none of them have this LIBPL code that I find in my actual installation. Can any of you all help me understand what's going on here? I'm trying to pinpoint exactly when/how the problematic code (.replace("/usr/local","/usr") went away. I'm hoping "doko" is on this mailing list. Of course feel free to advise if there's a more appropriate forum for this discussion.

This isn't really the place to ask about Ubuntu- (or Debian-) specific downstream modifications to CPython. Yes, there are people here who contribute to CPython, Debian, and Ubuntu but I think the best place to bring up questions like this, based on the Ubuntu project page, might be on the Ubuntu Core Developers mailing list:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/utopic/python-defaults https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Perhaps someone more familiar with the Ubuntu dev process will have a better suggestion.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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