Hi Philippe (2023.02.13_01:11:28_+0000)
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 7:31 PM Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that most if not all debian packages already ship
> > the required information for pip to see them as installed, and if
> > they are installed and they satisfy the dependency constraints that
> > pip has for those projects, then they'll be used.
Yeah, most packages should ship .egg-info/.dist-info.
> Also:
> $ dpkg -l python3-setuptools
> ...
> ii python3-setuptools 66.1.1-1 all Python3 Distutils Enhancements
>
> Yet when I do e.g.:
> $ pip install --editable .
> Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
> Obtaining file:///home/test/example
> Installing build dependencies ... error
> error: subprocess-exited-with-error
You sure it isn't doing an isolated build? Try --no-build-isolation.
SR
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