[sugar] sugar-jhbuild / avahi

[Trent Lloyd]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 13:26 -0500, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 20:13 +0900, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:19:07PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > > > I've got all the base dependencies from debian testing & experimental 
> > > > except for avahi. I see it tests:
> > > > 
> > > > python  -c 'import avahi'
> > > > 
> > > > Anybody know which deb to install to provide this? The obvious choice, 
> > > > python-avahi, doesn't help.
> > 
> > What files does python-avahi install?
> > Is python-avahi actually built with python 2.5?
> 
> It should just be an __init__ file that contains a few constants and a
> few small functions to convert byte arrays to dicts.  It's pretty
> harmless.
> 
> Fedora packages it as 'avahi-tools' for no particular reason.

This is probably historical, in the past it was used by the avahi python
utils, however since then most of the avahi utils have been rewritten in
C and the avahi file is provided mostly for external apps (and the
couple internal ones we still have, avahi-discover & avahi-bookmarks)

Cheers,
Trent

> 
> Dan
>