setuptools (was Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS)
On Nov 25, 2013, at 08:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python, it
>would be worth trying to convince your package's upstream to migrate to
>that. But not strictly necessary, if you are okay with handling the
>unofficial Setuptools.
This reminds me. Doko uploaded the new setuptools (post-distribute merge) to
experimental. Yay! I've been looking at it but have encountered some upgrade
problems.
# apt-get build-dep enum34
...
# dpkg -i *.deb
...
Unpacking replacement python-setuptools ...
dpkg: error processing python-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb (--install):
unable to open '/usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/zip-safe.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Preparing to replace python3-pkg-resources 0.6.49-2 (using python3-pkg-resources_1.3.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python3-pkg-resources ...
Preparing to replace python3-setuptools 0.6.49-2 (using python3-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python3-setuptools ...
Setting up python-distribute-doc (1.3.2-1) ...
Setting up python-pkg-resources (1.3.2-1) ...
Setting up python3-pkg-resources (1.3.2-1) ...
Setting up python3-setuptools (1.3.2-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
python-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb
Anyway, I ran out of time to investigate further, but will hopefully get back
to it tomorrow.
-Barry
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