Re: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system foo.egg-info/SOURCES.txt

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Adam <Adam.Schmalhofer@gmx.de> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > […] the ‘SOURCES.txt’ file is distributed as source, so
> > automatically deleting that file is too much magic. Rather, the
> > build process should not modify the source files at all.
>
> SOURCES.txt is rebuilt and not modified.

You say tomayto, I say tomahto.

> From /usr/share/doc/python-distribute/html/setuptools.html (which is
> in python-distribute-doc):
>
> | MANIFEST.in is still read and processed, as are the standard defaults
> | and pruning. But the manifest is built inside the project’s .egg-info
> | directory as SOURCES.txt, and it is rebuilt every time the egg_info
> | command is run.

I wonder, then, why the file is included in the source distribution at
all. Does it serve any function there, if that version is never used but
is only re-built?

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Ben Finney