On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 08:05:45AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > As a followup question, I have noticed that a lot of packages (including > electrum, which I have recently started maintaining) ship the egg-info > directory. Looking through /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/, this is common > but > not universal. Is there any reason to ship this directory or should it be > removed from the binary packages?
Lots of packages depend on the egg-info directory being present. $ grep EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT /usr/bin/* will give a (probably very long) list of executables that depend on an egg-info (or equivalent) directory being present. Best wishes, Julian