[Python-modules-team] Bug#839687: how to manage setuptools-scm packages in debian?

2016-10-05 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 05:56:53PM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote: > Hi, > > if you want to add some documentation within the setuptools-scm package, I'm > open to it. > > Especially now : there's a 1.12.0 out, so I'm going to RFS a new version of > the package soon. I don't have write acess to the

[Python-modules-team] Bug#839687: how to manage setuptools-scm packages in debian?

2016-10-03 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Answering my own question (and it would be nice to have this documented somewhere!), the solution is to use a more recent dh-python dependency and depend on python-setuptools-scm explicitely, *and* use --buildsystem=pybuild. I cargo-culted the (>= 2.20160609~) dependency from python-keyring, but

[Python-modules-team] Bug#839687: how to manage setuptools-scm packages in debian?

2016-10-03 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Source: setuptools-scm Severity: wishlist It is unclear to me how this package is supposed to be used to build native packages in Debian. Most packages I see in Debian seem to break the "rule" of "don't commit the version file into version control":