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This is a first step towards moving all of the Cryptech code from
Python 2 to Python 3. At this stage, the goal is to make the same
source code work in both language dialects, and to build packages
which install both versions of the library code.
This is a necessary step along the way, but since Python 2 is already
past EOL as of this writing and since some distributions have started
dropping all support for Python 2, we will almost certainly want to
drop all Python 2 support in the relatively near future, if only
because it's not really to do all the packaging right for both
versions at once without much more trouble than a dead language
dialect is probably worth. All platforms we care about should support
Python 3 already, any that don't probably have much worse problems.
So the primary purpose of pushing this particular commit is to archive
what will probably be the last version supporting Python 2, while
giving folks a chance to test the incoming Python 3 support a bit.
Once we've cut loose from Python 2 for good, there's some cleanup we
can and should do (eg, all the gymnastics to work around Python 2's
handling of bytes as a form of text rather than a sequence of small
integers), but for the moment we want to keep that compatability,
albeit briefly.
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reprepro strictly follows the Debian package rule that two package
files which have the same name must have identical content. Which is
fine, except when we want to support the same version of a package on
multiple releases of the same Debian-flavored operating system.
The usual hack for this is to add a release-specific tag to the end of
the version string. The brute force way of doing this requires
modifying the source package for each release, but there's an obscure
hack which lets us augment the binary package versions directly.
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We want to be able to provide packaged builds of development branches.
The most straightforward way to do this is a 1:1 correspondence
between branches in the releng tree and variant package names.
We adopt a simple convention: the base package name corresponds to the
master branch, all other branches are named with the base package name
followed by the branch name. So the master branch is the
cryptech-alpha package, the ksng branch is the cryptech-alpha-ksng
branch, and so forth. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's
probably good enough.
In order to do this, we need to generate the debian/control file at
build-time, so that we can generate the list of conflicting packages.
This commit also pulls in a few changes that had collected on the
master branches of various repositories, chiefly because a few of them
were necessary to get it the build to run at all.
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Undoubtedly doesn't work yet, and still needs doc, but perhaps now
ready for testing on build machine.
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