Re: Derive package dependencies from Setuptools declarations

[Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>]

[Ben Finney, 2016-10-15]
> How can I convince ‘dh-python’ to derive package dependencies from the
> Setuptools ‘install_requires’ declaration?

by dh-python you mean dh_python3, right?

> The Pip requirements tend to be tightly restrictive, because Pip is not
> a distribution system but rather a deployment system. So those
> requirements tend not to be good candidates for Debian's versioned
> dependencies.
> 
> The Setuptools ‘install_requires’ declaration is a better candidate for
> this, since it is metadata for the *distribution* (not deployment); this
> better matches Debian's purposes for package dependencies.
> 
> See <URL:https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/> for a
> discussion of these complementary and different purposes.
> 
> How can I convince ‘dh-python’ to derive Debian package dependencies
> from the Setuptools ‘install_requires’ declaration? For example,

can you point me to a source package where dh_python3 *doesn't* do that
already?
-- 
Piotr Ożarowski                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
www.ozarowski.pl          www.griffith.cc           www.debian.org
GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645