Re: Packaging for Cheeseshop and Debian

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
> A module that uses "eggs" to load another module is certainly
> egg-ready itself. However if the dependency isn't egg-ready, then
> the package expecting an egg of its dependency will be broken unless
> we add the egg support to its dependency.
>
> > What would need to be done upstream for this criterion to change?
>
> Switch from distutils to setuptools as shown with the example patch.

Thanks, this is clear.

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