[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

[Andreas Schneider]

On Thursday, 6 July 2017 12:14:09 CEST Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 11:54 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:26:33 CEST Lukas Slebodnik via
> > samba-technical
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > ehlo,
> > > 
> > > Generating different name with different architecture and with the same
> > > version of python is not ideal. pkgconfig files should be architecture
> > > independent and libraries for different architectures are stored in
> > > different directories
> > > 
> > >  e.g. (/usr/lib64, /usr/lib, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ ...)
> > > 
> > > Therefore it will be simpler to remove architecture from names
> > > /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pyldb-util.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.pc
> > > vs.
> > > /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pyldb-util36.pc
> > > 
> > > LS
> > 
> > RB+
> > 
> > Could we get new releases for talloc and ldb including this? Also
> > f5cafee0c7a96396798d2b229ff3f9dced1d74f3 is not part of a release!
> 
> I'm a bit nervous about this.  I tried to untangle a mess on Debian in
> this area, and ended up abandoning the py3 package for talloc with the
> parent commits to this:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-samba/talloc.git/commit/?id=11a83cac6387
> 19df56d8115837f9b8b744d6a69e
> 
> I'm not opposed to the idea in the patches, but I'm not sure it is
> changing enough, or the right things.  The variables there have become
> a tangled mess!
> 
> I realise this was 'just' trying to sort out pkgconfig, but we do need
> to sort out the ABI upstream, not in Debian etc, but I would love it if
> someone else could help me ensure that we could now re-enabled py3 in
> debian without hacks and with the right thing happening.  Ideally we
> get this changed once, break the ABI once, and get this right.
> 
> I think we will need to break the symbol names for pytalloc-util.
> (Does this matter?)

I don't think that python3 is used yet but we need to get it working correctly 
for Samba 4.7.


	Andreas

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