Re: pybuild pyproject.toml problem
Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> writes:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> -------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
>> * Building wheel...
>> Successfully built UNKNOWN-1.0.3-py3-none-any.whl
>> I: pybuild plugin_pyproject:118: Unpacking wheel built for
>> python3.10 with "installer" module
>> E: pybuild pybuild:369: build: plugin pyproject failed with: UNKNOWN
>> wheel found: UNKNOWN-1.0.3-py3-none-any.whl. Does pyproject.toml
>> specify a build-backend?
>> dh_auto_build: error: pybuild --build -i python{version} -p 3.10
>> returned exit code 13
>> make: *** [debian/rules:5: binary] Error 25
>> -------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
>
> I *think* the issue might be that our setuptools is too old to
> understand how to get project metadata from pyproject.toml (PEP 621).
> This seems to indicate that it was added in setuptools 61.0.0:
>
> https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_config.html
>
> As a workaround, you might try to patch the metadata back into setup.cfg?
Since setuptools 63 is already in experimental, I will probably just
wait until it makes its way to unstable (and file a bug for it).
Cheers
Ole
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