Re: pybuild pyproject.toml problem

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Ole Streicher wrote:

> 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).

Does building with setuptools from experimental resolve the issue?

Scott