I've talked to the good people on #debian-bootstrap who would be most
affected by the possible build-dep cycle, and i think the simplest
approach is actually to split out make_dafsa.py into its own
architecture-independent package.
I'm thinking i'll call the package psl-make-dafsa, and in the course of
shipping it, i'll place src/make_dafsa.py as /usr/bin/psl-make-dafsa.
This is because:
* debian discourages scripts on the $PATH from having language-specific
suffixes like .py:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-with-language-extension.html
* "-" appears to be a more common delimiter in command names than "_":
0 dkg@alice:~$ for x in - _; do printf "%s: %d " "$x" $(ls -1 ${PATH//:/ } | grep -c "$x"); done; echo
-: 1235 _: 368
0 dkg@alice:~$
* i'd prefer to prefix the command with "psl-" since it really is
producing and interpreting PSL-specific data structures.
Accepting this patch would mean i'd have fewer changes to make in the
debian packaging, and would allow other distributors to take a similar
approach if they want to.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Tim Rühsen