Arch Linux

The list of packages are currently having pyc/pyo files with "bad mtime" (e.g. some/all .pyc/pyo files are older than their corresponding .py files), which was often caused by doing modification after installation.

The most common case is sed'ing shebangs after calling python2 setup.py install. Please fix this by moving the needed modifications into prepare() phase.

The problem is that the interpreter will refuse to load the files, which increases load time for each affected file in the package, and renders the shipped pyc/pyo files useless.

A bit more background:

A bug report of python2 was opened: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37006

Many thanks to Kyle so we have the tool to generate the list [1]. An old list had been put on the topic of #archlinux-tu for more than 8 months.

I've generated the list again and am opening this TODO as that list is somewhat outdated as of now, and a TODO should help the progress further.

[1] http://pkgbuild.com/~kkeen/misc/