[arch-dev-public] Python packaging policy

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Well, the options I see are
> 1) .pyc/.pyo files are created as part of packaging.  That way we just
> rebuild the package if needed during an upgrade.
> 2) .pyc/.pyo files are recreated on python/package update.  So, we would
> have a pre_update script that finds all the .pyc/.pyo files, deletes them
> and a post_update script that rebuilds them.  In this option, it would be
> better if .pyc/.pyo files were not part of a package as I don't like one
> package touching another packages files.

The problem with option #2 is that those files are no longer tracked
by pacman. Removing the package could still result in removal of those
files, but it gets very ugly... it'd be nice if these files were
tracked by pacman.