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Bug#576005: lintian: check if package is shipping *.pyc/*.pyo



[Jakub Wilk, 2010-03-31]
> * Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>, 2009-08-12, 00:08:
>> .pyc and .pyo files should not be shipped in binary packages
>
> There's already a tag for that (package-installs-python-pyc) but the  
> check is not comprehensive enough:
>
> - It is currently limited to /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/. Some packages in the  
> archive are shipping *.pyc in /usr/share/pyshared/, private directories 
> etc.
>
> - It triggers only on *.pyc. Some packages in the archive are shipping  
> *.pyo.

How about renaming the tag to package-installs-python-bytecode
and:
* checking for .pyc/.pyo files in the whole package,
* checking for .egg files in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/ and
  /usr/{share,lib}/pyshared[1] or:
* checking for .egg files in the whole package
  if the mime type matches zip archives' one

[1] looks like egg extension is used outside Python world
    (http://filext.com/file-extension/egg)



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