| Summary: | app-emulation/vmware-workstation: Verify and potentially improve Python-related code | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) <arfrever> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 308257 | ||
vmware installer in general uses bundled copy of python. However recent vmware ebuilds do not use vmware installer nor python. |
- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules (*.so or *.py) into directories specific to given versions of Python, then consider supporting installation for multiple Python versions. Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1]. - Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables. - Please check if Python 3 is supported by this package. You can temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python to properly test if this package supports Python 3. - If this package does not support Python 3: - Specify dependency on Python 2. You can use PYTHON_DEPEND helper variable, which should be set before inheriting of python eclass. - If this package cannot support installation for multiple versions of Python, then set active version of Python using python_set_active_version(). - Ensure that shebangs in installed scripts specify correct version of Python. If shebangs are too generic (e.g. '#!/usr/bin/python'), then you can use python_convert_shebangs() to convert shebangs. (Wrapper scripts generated by python_generate_wrapper_scripts() do not require any changes.) - To ensure that changes applied to the ebuilds are sufficient, please temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python and test if this package can be properly installed and if it works at run time. Please see documentation [1] for more details. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml