Re: [PATCH 1/7] gnu: Add python-tblib and python2-tblib

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> * packages/python.scm (python-tblib) (python2-tblib): New
>   functions.

[...]

> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:phases
> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +        (replace 'check
> +         (lambda _
> +           (zero? (system* "py.test" "--ignore=setup.py"
> +                           "--ignore=docs/conf.py"
> +                           "--ignore=ci/appveyor-download.py")))))))

Can you add a comment explaining why we have to replace the check phase
and what these options are doing?

[...]

> +    (description
> +     "Traceback serialization allows you to:
> +
> +* Pickle tracebacks and raise exceptions with pickled tracebacks in different
> +  processes.  This allows better error handling when running code over
> +  multiple processes (imagine multiprocessing, billiard, futures, celery 
> etc).
> +
> +* Parse traceback strings and raise with the parsed tracebacks.")

Please see the package definition of python-debian for an example of how
to make these sorts of lists in texinfo (which is what the description
is).