Here's a few things I found out while making the rpms for TurboGears,
and a few questions that have now resulted.
I've attached an irc log of a chat I had in #turbogears. They say that
packaging a python module as a .egg file isn't necessary. This means
that the python-Testgears spec can be, and probably should be, modified
to use the --single-version-externally-managed flag.
TurboGears will work just fine without python-TestGears. It's just a
testing suite. Should the dependency be taken out of the TurboGears
package? Also, the people in #turbogears (specifically evelind) say
that they don't even use python-TestGears and instead have moved on to
nose (
http://python.org/pypi/nose). Should I package nose or
python-TestGears or both?
There is also a like to the Debian guidelines on python packages.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/NewPolicy . I don't know if
anything in there applies, but it might.
~tom