Unexpected Depends: both python-central and python-support

[Ben Finney]

Howdy all,

I recently packaged 'python-minimock', using debhelper 7 and
python-central.

<URL:http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-minimock/python-minimock_0.8-2.dsc>

The Depends from the control file are:

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.8),
python-central (>= 0.6.7),
python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11)

…
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}

The resulting binary package, though, has pulled in a dependency on
python-support:

Depends: python, python-central (>= 0.6.7), python-support (>= 0.7.1)

What's causing this, and how can I fix it so it doesn't have this
unexpected extra dependency?

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Ben Finney

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[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> What's causing this, and how can I fix it so it doesn't have this
> unexpected extra dependency?

It's because dh (from debhelper 7) will use dh_pysupport by default
if it's available.

Just use what debhelper uses by default or make sure to skip
that script by using appropriate dh --before pysupport
and dh --after pysupport invocation to skip dh_pysupport (until Joey
decides to implement a --skip option in debhelper at least).

Check the output of "dh binary-arch --no-act" to verify it by yourself.

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