help needed on the gwyddion review

[Michel Salim]

On 10/7/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a review for gwyddion submitted by David Necas, it is his
> first package:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187294
>
[snip]
> Currently David put the modules in the libs subpackage (together with the
> gwyddion libs), below %{_libdir}/%{name}, without having the subpackage
> requires the interpreters (python, perl and ruby). His reasoning is
> that they are available, and a user has to have the interpreter available
> anyway, so no need to Requires them. Nothing shows that the modules are in
> this subpackage, and users have to set set some path explicitely, but
> for him having those bits a bit hard to use it is not an issue since it
> is associated with a deprecated interface.
>
> I disagree, and tend to think that these modules should be packaged as
> far as possible like usual modules, each in a subpackage with a dependency
> on the interpreter.
>
> I don't have a clear opinion on this, could you have one?
>
It would make sense (to me, anyway) to have the deprecated modules
packaged like normal, as you suggested, but perhaps with an ifdef.
Probably set them to be built by default for now?

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