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Re: Python pybuild system & setup.cfg



Hi Hilmar,

Preuße, Hilmar, on 2023-03-23:
> I'm a little bit lost, by building the pssh package. The upstream author
> released a new version, which changed the build system. Before I had a
> setup.py in the root directory, now there is a pyproject.toml and a
> setup.cfg file, the setup.py is gone. The debian/rules file calls the dh
> sequencer:
> 
> DESTDIR=debian/tmp
> 
> %:
>         dh $@ --buildsystem=pybuild
> 
> The build fails right at the beginning, with:
> 
> dh clean --buildsystem=pybuild
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> I: pybuild base:240: python3.11 setup.py clean
> python3.11: can't open file '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/setup.py': [Errno 2] No
> such file or directory
> E: pybuild pybuild:388: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit
> code=2: python3.11 setup.py clean
> 
> The content of the pyproject.toml is:
> 
> [build-system]
> requires = ["setuptools"]
> build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
> 
> The build Deps I use until now are:
> 
> Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
>         python3,
>         python3-setuptools,
>         dh-sequence-python3
> 
> I don't know what needs to be changed to convince debhelper to use the
> setup.cfg instead of setup.py. My wild guess is that I have to change my
> BD's but I don't know what needs to be added/removed.

offpunk upstream made a similar move recently.  I added the
following packages to build dependencies:
  * flit
  * pybuild-plugin-pyproject

Hope this helps,
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