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Re: Python pybuild system & setup.cfg



On Thursday, March 23, 2023 5:07:56 PM EDT Étienne Mollier wrote:
> 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,

Since setuptools is the build system identified in pyproject.toml, flit isn't 
needed for this package.  Adding pybuild-plugin-pyproject to build depends 
should be sufficient.

Scott K

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