- 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
hmmm. Python is only needed for building the docs. So it doesn't install any python modules. But: ebuild fail if used with python 3.1. I try to investigate what to do.
DEPEND="... doc? ( =dev-lang/python-2* ..." pkg_setup() { if use doc; then python_set_active_version 2 python_pkg_setup fi }
no, that's not the right thing ;) it's just a small python script doc/templates/gen.py, which is only used for generating the docs. I did a version bump and fixed it there. I had to use the shebang-patch-feature, because of the "print is now a function" change in python3. Though it's a nice feauture, it breaks all old scripts. :-( I don't want to fix the old versions until anyone complains. All old versions are stable and I don't want to touch them. But I will remove the oldest version.