Re: py-cairo and PYVERSSUFFIX

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:05:04PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > > Okay if py-cairo installs the include/pycairo/pycairo.h with 
> > > PYVERSSUFFIX part of the file name?
> > 
> > No. It will break every user of the module.
> 
> I guess any easy fix is to have ${PYPKGPREFIX}-cairo package depend on a 
> specific version of the pycairo-header package that provides only the 
> header and pkgconfig file.

I did that ages ago for py-gobject and I regret it. The maintainance
price is in no relation to the gain and most of the py-gnome stack has
this and similar issues. IMO it is not worth the time to "fix" this.

Joerg