Hi Nilesh,
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 03:22:21AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > I've commited some changes to ont-fast5-api. When I try to run any
> > of the scripts installed into the package I get:
> >
> > pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'progressbar33>=2.3.1' distribution was not found and is required by ont-fast5-api
>
> I fixed this one, and pushed to salsa. It builds, tests run and looks usable.
Thanks for this.
> However, one problem - I'm being verbose so we are in loop:
>
> - This package had .so files vendored in ont_fast5_api/vbz_plugin/* -- this is a violation, and hence you repacked it - see this[1]
> - The so files it had, are basically the shared object files that libvbz-hdf-plugin vendors, and that was why we packaged it
> - *Now*, we need to somehow tell this package to find the .so files at the right location
>
> I did not manage to do that, so I simply ended up symlinking the .so vendored by libvbz-hdf-plugin in that directory. This looks like a bad workaround,
> and hence if you have some way to fixup paths, please have a look.
> The bad change I'm talking about is this one[2]
I see what you mean after disabling this hack locally. I need to admit
that I have no idea how to do this properly. I would recommend to ask
at debian-mentors and/or debian-python list whether someone might have a
better understanding where Python is seeking for *.so plugins.
Admittedly, I wouldn't have much time in the coming days to do mail/ask around - real life is taking over.
Would you mind asking/seeking help around for how to do this properly?
I'd be really happy if you could finalise this and upload as well. Apologies if this is too much hassle.
Nilesh