Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> writes: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > > Well joke aside you cannot fix the tarball that people release on > > pypi with half of the test code and data missing just because their > > MANIFEST.in was flaky. > > ;-) And that is when my evil "package from VCS" comes into play. For > some projects I package directly from a clone of upstream GIT (or even > gitsvn'ed upstream's SVN). And then I deal with actual sources, not > with possibly stripped or crippled source distribution, so I can fix > any issue like the one you brought up.
What I do, and would recommend other packagers to do, is to have that situation prompt a discussion with upstream about fixing the broken tarball release. I see it as part of an OS packager's job to be an advocate on behalf of other OS packagers and users, informing/educating upstream about release practice improvements that can make their work more useable by the community. > Sure thing such approach is not universally-advisable: has its own > cons as well. Indeed. If an OS packager needs to start packaging from arbitrary VCS revisions instead of upstream-released tarballs with official version strings, I think that's a strong sign that the project's release process is (socially) broken and needs to be fixed upstream. > > If we are talking from a perspective of upstream developers that > > also maintain their packages then I would *love* to see setup.py > > sdist-test and would use it each day. > > ;-) How would a putative ‘sdist_test’ differ from ‘test’? Why is this an argument for a new command, and not an argument to improve what is done by ‘test’ anyway? -- \ “I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the | `\ church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each | _o__) other and of ourselves.” —Robert G. Ingersoll | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc1zsx1a....@benfinney.id.au
