Re: dpkg-buildpackage vs sbuild with python packaging
> However, it seems the upstream build actually depends on setuptools-scm now,
> they (you? :)) don't use any other way to tell the build system about
> the data files - the *.png images, the *.rst documentation, etc..
> This... may be a problem if the package is not built out of a Git checkout
> with Git itself present... and Debian packages are usually expected to be
> built out of a plain extracted source archive, no `.git/`, no anything.
I am just contributing to the project, specifficaly I try to add a proper pyproject.toml file.
> I'd suggest making some changes upstream, like listing the data files yourself:
> https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/datafiles.html
>
> (or, of course, switching away from setuptools, but any build system you choose
> may still need to be configured to include the data files along with your
> Python module sources, although some of them do this by default for most files)
setuptools is not the right tool in order to build Python projects ?
Fred
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