On 27 July 2000, Bastian Kleineidam said:
if the Distutils bail out on broken links we will run into problems with Debian packages. I am calling the dh_undocumented script which generates the link debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/linkchecker.1.gz -> ../man7/undocumented.7.gz which is broken only temporarily, but not after installing the generated .deb package.
Oh, bother! OK, I'll try to come up with a decent fix for this. Now that the "grope about the filesystem looking for stuff" code has been factored out of sdist.py, I think this is the place to detect broken links. Then it's just a question of making sure the "find all modules in package X" code in build_py.py uses file_list.py. I think this will have to wait until after 0.9.1, unless someone presents me with an irresistably perfect patch in the next 24 hours. Greg -- Greg Ward - geek-on-the-loose gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I just heard the SEVENTIES were over!! And I was just getting in touch with my LEISURE SUIT!!