On 09.11.2016 21:44, Goirand Thomas (aka zigo) wrote:
>
> On Nov 9, 2016 5:56 PM, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Ian Jackson writes ("dput missing a dependency on python setuptools
>> library"):
>>> (build)root@zealot:~# dput
>> ...
>>> raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
>>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'setuptools' distribution was not
>>> found and is required by dput
>>
>> Are there any plans to fix this in python ? (I'm not really familiar
>> enough with the python module and loading system to do so myself.)
>
> Every python module is installed with an "egg-info" folder
> containing a "require.txt" file that contains Python module deps.
>
> What's happening here is probably dput having a Python dep
> on setuptools but it's not expressed in the Debian package's
> runtime Depends:. The way to fix it would be patching the
> dput Python requires (probably, that's in setup.py), or add the
> Depends: python-setuptools in the dput package. But I haven't
> looked at the issue so I can't tell which one of actions to do.
it's surprising that dput would need a dependency on the setuptools egg instead
of the pkg_resources egg. A dependency on the setuptools egg just sounds plain
wrong.
Do you have a test case why a dependency on the setuptools egg is needed?
Matthias
