On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 10:27:54PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > > this is a patch-series fixing bug 20765. > > > > Bug 20765 is about problems caused by python packages being installed as > > "zipped eggs" (basically these are zip-files). > > Thanks for taking this on! > > I will read it more thoroughly tomorrow. > > I will test a few packages and, if they work, I plan to create a > python-build-system job on Hydra and try building it the entire package > tree (assuming that Hydra has the capacity).
I underestimated the impact of this change. Just looking at libxcb, which depends on python-minimal-wrapper, I see that ~2500 packages will be rebuilt. So, depending on the status of core-updates, this should wait until after core-updates is mostly built.
