Control: tags -1 pending Hi dear Marc and Thomas,
(Thomas I'm ccing you, only for the python-msgpack backport request, at the bottom of the mail) I honestly don't follow too much your approach :) You called yourself out from the team, but you try to contribute anyway... what about joining it again :D ? and now the specific answer: >setup.py demends python3-setuptool-scm >= 1.7, which is not satisfied >in Debian jessie. it isn't satisfied even a lower version AFAIK (however it might be not true for people apt-pinning stuff and not updating it) >To make life less of python hell for backporters, please also declare >this versioned dependencies in debian/control so that one doesn't >spend hours guessing why package build fails. while this is true in general, it doesn't change too much in this particular context. 1.7 is not part of any stable/testing/unstable Debian distribution, and (since upstream asked this a while ago), I personally built&signed&uploaded setuptools-scm for jessie backports (version 1.8) now the only package missing is python-msgpack, and zigo is already aware of the issue (and the backport request) I committed the change, because it is harmless, but I don't think about any useful use case where it might change anything. It will be part of the next upload (coming in the next few days), and as soon as msgpack is available we will be able to backport it to jessie. cheers, G.
