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Re: Missing entry in SOURCES.txt



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Christoph Mathys wrote:
> I try to package mercurial-keyring. However, if I build the binary
> package and then try to build the source package, this process fails
> because SOURCES.txt has been modified by the binary package build.
> 
> Apparently, dh_python2 (setuptools) creates an entry in SOURCES.txt
> for setup.cfg. This entry is missing from the upstream packages
> SOURCES.txt.
> 
> Strange enough, on my ubuntu 12.04 box, running 'python setup.py
> sdist' does not add setup.cfg to SOURCES.txt. If an explicit 'python
> setup.py egg_info' is executed, this will add the missing entry.
> 
> What is the proposed solution here? Patch SOURCES.txt? Nag upstream
> to update to a newer setuptools-package?
Ignore SOURCES.txt with extend-diff-ignore in debian/source/options.

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