python noarch vs arch

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:48 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 16:40 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 16:34 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am working on packaging cohoba, this is a python gui client/mission
> > > control for telepathy. It has one small .c file, so I have a few
> > > questions:
> > > - because of the .c file the package has to by arch-specific i guess. Is
> > > there a strong preference to package as noarch? (the c part is used for
> > > changing the name for killall, so to put it as noarch i can just leave
> > > that part out (not being able to killall cohoba), or add a dependency on
> > > python-ctypes and add a small patch to cohoba to use ctypes to do it
> > > instead)
> > > 
> 
> If it can use all pure python, that would be best for the upstream
> project.  Why reinvent the wheel?

I notified upstream and they accepted my proposed solution, and it will
be in the next release so for this release I'll include the patch
myself.