On Nov 25, 2013, at 08:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python, it >would be worth trying to convince your package's upstream to migrate to >that. But not strictly necessary, if you are okay with handling the >unofficial Setuptools.
This reminds me. Doko uploaded the new setuptools (post-distribute merge) to experimental. Yay! I've been looking at it but have encountered some upgrade problems. # apt-get build-dep enum34 ... # dpkg -i *.deb ... Unpacking replacement python-setuptools ... dpkg: error processing python-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb (--install): unable to open '/usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info/zip-safe.dpkg-new': No such file or directory Preparing to replace python3-pkg-resources 0.6.49-2 (using python3-pkg-resources_1.3.2-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python3-pkg-resources ... Preparing to replace python3-setuptools 0.6.49-2 (using python3-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python3-setuptools ... Setting up python-distribute-doc (1.3.2-1) ... Setting up python-pkg-resources (1.3.2-1) ... Setting up python3-pkg-resources (1.3.2-1) ... Setting up python3-setuptools (1.3.2-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: python-setuptools_1.3.2-1_all.deb Anyway, I ran out of time to investigate further, but will hopefully get back to it tomorrow. -Barry -- 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/20131124174535.71beb...@limelight.wooz.org
