Re: Bug#1005043: lintian: check that Python version numbers are not 0.0.0

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 12:26:01AM +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Julian (2022.02.07_06:26:38_+0000)
> > I'm a little confused by this.  Have a look at
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005039 against
> > python3-iniconfig.  It has a very straightforward debian/rules, using
> > pybuild, and its setup.py script has "use_scm_version=True", but it
> > still produces a python package with version number 0.0.0.
> > 
> > I have tried this in an environment where I have
> > python3-setuptools-scm installed, by the way (even though the package
> > does not Build-Depends on it).  I'm using dh-python version 5.20220119
> 
> That's the issue, it *needs* to Build-Depend on that (pybuild only
> exports the PRETEND environment variable when there is a
> Build-Dependency).
> 
> Committed a fix to git.

Ah, thanks Stefano!

Best wishes,

   Julian