On 22/12/2015 22:05, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Alexandre Fayolle > <alexandre.fayo...@free.fr> wrote: >> The package python-pydot has version 1.0.28 in debian. However the >> package installed reports as version 1.0.32 (see setup.py in the source >> package). This creates confusion with tools such as pip which don't see > > I dont have any trace of that 1.0.32 you mention in the setup.py . the > version reported from the package is 1.0.29 as I suspect that was a > "hack" from upstream the last time they release the package on google > code (see the commented code just after 29). Now it's on github and > looks like this : > https://github.com/erocarrera/pydot/blob/pydot-1.0.28/pydot.py#L22 > > dont know what to do with this bug though >
Hello Sandro, An easy way to check for this is in the file list in the package: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/python-pydot/filelist You can see there is a very suspicious /usr/share/pyshared/pydot-1.0.32.egg-info/PKG-INFO in there. I dug a little bit more in there and it turns out the file debian/patches/support-py3k.patch is responsible for this. It changes setup.py and hardcodes the 1.0.32 version (which is a very poor decision, imo). I think modifying the patch to have at least the PKGINFO matching the package version is the way to go. Thanks, and merry christmas! Alexandre
