On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> Hi Daniel and python packagers,
>
>
> I've added distribute to py2[4-7], given it a Provides setuptools, and
> Conflicts
>
> setuptools.
>
> If your package depends or builddepends on setuptools, please test it with
> distribute.
>
> -kurt
> (goatbar)
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 10:08:19 AM
> Subject: Replace setuptools-py with distribute-py?
>
> I'm running into a problem packaging python packages that require distribute
> instead of setuptools. To make matters worse, they will automatically
> download
> distribute and try to replace an already installed setuptools! This seems to
> be
> becoming common in the Python world. Fortunately, --build-as-nobody catches
> this, but it also makes the packages uninstallable except on py31. Distribute
> is
>
> fully backward compatible with setuptools, so this shouldn't break anything,
> and
>
> in any case, setuptools is generally considered deprecated.
>
> Now there are a few packages that have a versioned BuildDepends on
> setuptools-py, so simply relying on Provides: setuptools-py%type_pkg[python]
> won't work unless we change those to unversioned BuildDepends. The other
> possibility is to make an empty dummy setuptools-py%type_pkg[python] package
> that simply Depends on distribute (and add 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 types). That
> would
> be the least work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
Thanks for the update, but it still doesn't install:
The following package will be installed or updated:
distribute-py27
Reading buildlock packages...
All buildlocks accounted for.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb
dpkg: considering removing setuptools-py27 in favour of distribute-py27 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove setuptools-py27 in favour of distribute-py27.
(Reading database ... 137774 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking distribute-py27 (from .../distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb)
...
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb
(--install):
cannot remove file
`/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info/zip-safe':
Not a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package distribute-py27-0.6.14-2
Daniel
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