On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:26 PM Tomas Hrnciar <thrnc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > there are plenty of Python packages in Fedora currently using setuptools at > buildtime but not all of them are BuildRequiring it explicitly. This only > works > because python3-devel (transitively) depends on python3-setuptools. > > We would like to kindly ask you to add explicit BuildRequires for > python3-setuptools to packages where setuptools is used. It will help us > with testing new versions of setuptools in the future or with decoupling > Python and setuptools. Today, if we want to know if a package is using > setuptools, we have to do `fedpkg prep` and use grep to search for > setuptools. Using a repoquery is much more convenient. > > Several packages can successfully build either with or without setuptools > (they use try-except import and fallback to distutils from the standard > library). Such packages are especially dangerous when not BuildRequiring > setuptools -- they can produce different results depending on the presence > of setuptools: either an .egg-info metadata directory (w/setuptools) or > .egg-info text file (w/distutils). RPM has troubles when upgrading > directories to files [1]. > > [1] > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Directory_Replacement/ > > According to our grep based query on Fedora Rawhide, there are 621 known > packages using setuptools without BuildRequiring it at this point: > > Thank you very much for your help with this. > [...] > > musuruan ogr2osm > Fixed and rebuilt in rawhide. BR, Andrea
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