On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 11:21 PM Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:53 PM Jussi Pakkanen <jpakk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:03 AM Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > I tried building a package (gnome-games-app) using meson but the build > > > fails now. I guess meson needs to depend on python3-pkg-resources . > > > > No. We are not permitted to depend on anything outside of Python > > standard library. Thought looking at the package info that package is > > provided by setuptools which is a bit of an edge case because > > distutils is a bit neglected AFAICT. > > This issue means that everything using meson in Debian fails to build > right now. Specifically, this is blocking us from being able to do the > GNOME 3.30.1 updates this week. > > So I think a temporary fix now would be appropriate and then you can > take more time to figure out a different solution if you like.
You might want to look at https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4004 if you're still wondering how this change happened. May I do an NMU to add the dependency to unbreak things? Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
