Bug 315835 – net-misc/omniORB: Verify and potentially improve Python-related code

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-04-18 02:23:01 UTC]

- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules
  (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting
  installation for multiple Python versions.
  Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide
  if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions.

- 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.
    Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in
    documentation [1].

  - 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.)
    Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1].

  - 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

[Comment 1 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2010-04-24 19:47:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> - If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules
>   (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting
>   installation for multiple Python versions.
>   Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide
>   if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions.

I tried it but it would probably mean rebuilding everything or serious hacks. So unless anything else than the omniidl script in this package itself uses the python code, I don't think it's worth the trouble.

> - Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables.

Thanks for the patch.

> - 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.

It fails with 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.
>     Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in
>     documentation [1].
> 
>   - 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.)
>     Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1].
> 
>   - 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
> 

Done. Thanks.