[Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

[David Malcolm]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:42 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped
> > with python but python-devel. (like Fedora)
> 
> This practice is stupid anyway, because it means you have to install
> python-devel even to install pure Python packages with setuptools/distribute.
> Just ask Fedora, Mandriva and friends to change their packaging practice
> (Mandriva already has a bug open for that by the way).
> 
> In Debian/Ubuntu, the Makefile is correctly part of the main Python package:
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile
> python2.5: /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile
For what it's worth, this is fixed in Fedora as of python-2.6.4-2.fc13 ;
the bug tracking it was:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531901