This being roughly the mid-point in the development cycle, I thought it might be good to see where we are in terms of future Python packaging developments. As I understand it, PEP-517 and PEP-518 are 'the future'. I took a look at the presence of pyproject.toml files in the Debian archive. There are currently 99 packages. Of those, only 28 specify a 'build-backend', which is required by 517/518 to be useful for building a package. 25 specify: build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta" (including setuptools) 3 specify: build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi" (including flit) If build-backend is not specified, the build system has to fall back to setup.py. I've recently package flit (just arrived in Testing) and written a flit plugin for pybuild that's pending review for merging[1]. I also packaged pep517 for our pip package, so that's available to support future Debian tool development in this area. For the moment, I guess we are in reasonable shape, but it might be useful to have a pybuild plugin to use PEP517/setuptools.build_meta in lieu of setup.py with setuptools/distutils when available. In the future, this will be the primary API and the sooner we start to use it, the better. Scott K [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/12
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