Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xlrd.

[Andreas Enge]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 05:49:28PM +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> > +    (native-inputs
> > +     `(("python-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
> > +       ("python-nose" ,python2-nose)))
> I don't know python packaging but when I look at other packages it
> seems that these are usually used as “inputs” not
> “native-inputs”.

There was a discussion about python-setuptools; I do not remember the
outcome... For python-nose, it seems to be used for tests only, so
native-inputs would be the right field.

Can this not be checked by running
   guix gc --references `guix build python-xlrd`
and seeing whether the packages are referenced or not?

> I think it should be “python-*” instead of “python-2”.  Am I wrong?

Yes, the package-with-python procedure will rewrite this for the python2-xlrd
package.

Andreas