Decide what to do with .rtupdate files

[Daniel Holbach]

dh_python2 will (since python-defaults 2.7.2-5, so quantal+precise) create usr/share/python/runtime.d/*.rtupdate files, which according to the policy for packages in extras.u.c are not allowed to be outside /opt.

We need to make a decision on how to move forward.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It looks like exactly the same thing is included in the packages' maintainer scripts, the only reason why they might be necessary is when we install a new python{,3} version. Its maintainer scripts call the individual .rtupdate files, so we might need to teach python and python3 to look in opt as well.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I'm not sure what the p-d-e bug is here. That sounds much more like a dh_python2 bug, i. e. python-defaults?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

dh_python2 neither knows nor cares about non-policy compliant packages like those in /opt, so I think this is out of scope for dh_python2.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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