Re: to distribute_setup() or not, that is the question

[Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>]

[Barry Warsaw, 2012-01-26]
> Given that I really don't want to change upstream, the question then is what
> the best approach is for the Debian packaging.
> 
> 1) Leave it as above because it's okay that the build fails on Squeeze.
> 
> 2) Add a quilt patch to comment out the distribute_setup lines above, and then
>    don't version python*-setuptools.  In my particular case, it doesn't help
>    without further modifications, because the package isn't buildable on
>    Squeeze anyway (there's no dh sphinxdoc I think).
> 
> 3) Some combination of the B-D versioning and #2.
> 
> 4) Or something else (e.g. specify a minimum version in .use_setuptools() that
>    gets satisfied on Squeeze.

import sys
try:
   import distribute  # import setuptools?
except ImportError:
   if '--download-distribute' in sys.argv:
   	import distribute_setup
	distribute_setup.use_setuptools()
   else:
       print >>sys.stderr, 'Please install distribute or add --download-distribute argument'"
       exit(1)
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