https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/recording-installed-packages/ defines the python spec where a package such as pyparsing would create a tree of files under: site-packages/pyparsing-3.0.9-dist-info/ including RECORD which is essentially a sha256-based manifest of files and some others.
On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 08:12, Ian Norton <inor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You've made me wonder if it would be feasible to have a debian-centric > tool that populates .dist-info from debs? > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 08:05, Ian Norton <inor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I requested this kind of thing from the pip folks as > > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11644 and others have requested > > similar, such as https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11607 > > > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 04:56, Philippe Cerfon <philc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hey. > > > > > > I hope this is not too off topic. > > > > > > As far as I understand, dh-python, when building packages somehow > > > automatically uses the Debian package names and even prevents e.g. > > > setuptools from downloading any dependencies by setting a (hopefully > > > not running) proxy. > > > > > > > > > I wondered whether it's possible to make tools like pip and setuptools > > > directly use the Debian python packages when resolving dependencies. > > > > > > The main motivation are security constraints, so I had to configure > > > pip so that it cannot just download packages from PyPI (which is > > > rather easy, simply setting no-index in pip.conf). > > > > > > But then of course it also fails to e.g. do an editable install of a > > > locally developed package, when it tries to resolve the dependencies. > > > > > > So I wondered whether it's possible to prevent pip from downloading > > > any remote stuff, while still resolving dependencies (respectively > > > consider them as being resolved) *if* the package is locally installed > > > from the Debian archive? > > > (If a dependency isn't installed from a package it may of course fail.) > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Philippe. > > > > > > PS: Please keep me CCed. > > >