Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour <tan...@bioneland.org> writes:
> Hi Guix! > > I'm working on updating python-pytest and… not everything is going as > smoothly as I was expecting! :-( > > Pytest 5.2.1 depends on Pluggy >=0.12.0… which depends on > importlib-metadata. But when I had the latter as a propagated-input to > python-pluggy, then `guix build` gets stuck. > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm > index a7f83dcd31..ab80cdebf9 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm > @@ -8914,17 +8914,19 @@ library as well as on the command line.") > (define-public python-pluggy > (package > (name "python-pluggy") > - (version "0.11.0") > + (version "0.13.0") > (source > (origin > (method url-fetch) > (uri (pypi-uri "pluggy" version)) > (sha256 > (base32 > - "10511a54dvafw1jrk75mrhml53c7b7w4yaw7241696lc2hfvr895")))) > + "0d4gsvb4kjqhiqqi4bbsdp7s1xlyl5phibcw1q1mrpd65xia2pzs")))) > (build-system python-build-system) > (native-inputs > `(("python-setuptools-scm" ,python-setuptools-scm))) > + (propagated-inputs > + `(("python-importlib-metadata" ,python-importlib-metadata))) > (synopsis "Plugin and hook calling mechanism for Python") > (description "Pluggy is an extraction of the plugin manager as used by > Pytest but stripped of Pytest specific details.") > > The problem seems to be that python-importlib-metadata's dependency graph > contains… python-pluggy! > > How am I supposed to fix this chicken and egg situation?! Is this > something that should be notified to upstream?! > > Regards I think I had told you this over IRC, but for the record: Python 3.8 will include importlib-metadata in its core libraries, so after we move to it on core-updates the chicken and egg situation will be no more. Maxim