On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:12:48 -0400 Stefano Rivera <stefa...@debian.org>
wrote:
> Hi Drew (2023.01.07_07:56:43_-0400)
>
> I think this is something worth a try in early trixie.
> It'll likely be a change of default mode, and require packages to
> explicitly the request the setuptools mode.
>
> > It matters in particular for python modules which are rebuilt with
> > different configurations, for different debian python packages from
> > the same source. For instance petsc4py provides separate real and
complex
> > number builds of its python module.
>
> Does that matter? They get built once, each. Both temporary
directories
> don't need to exist at the same time.
I'm just curious if switching to pyproject will require packagers (that
is, users of dh-python) to change anything in their python packages, or
if this change will be completely isolated inside of dh-python?