I'm currently trying to backport offlineimap from zesty to trusty. This may be a bit ambitious given the python depends, but I'm taking it as a good learning experience. I've been working my way up the depends tree with `backportpackage` with great luck, at least up until I ran into python-setuptools. Looking at the [sbuild output][1], it seems that all the right depends (including several main python packages, including 2.7 and 3) are pulled in.
Looking on GitHub (and apparently ignoring the dates because they seem to be at conflict; perhaps a data transfer issue), it looks like the string "Cannot build setuptools without metadata. Run bootstrap.py" is certainly in the [version][2] I'm trying to build. This supposedly fixes an [issue][3] when building in a clean environment from a repo checkout. Considering the watch file points at PyPi rather than GitHub, I'm going to assume that latter detail is not applicable. It does seem like we're using the sdist. But yet, the same behavior. So perhaps bootstrapping is something that must be done first? I'm hoping one of you with experience packaging setuptools may be able to help. Otherwise I'll go try barking up the maintainer's tree. Thanks in advance, [1]: https://paste.ubuntu.com/26059403/ [2]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/v33.1.1/setup.py#L19 [3]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/659 -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
