FYI for anyone involved with maintaining Python-related ports in
MacPorts: Over in discuss.python.org, Paul Moore started a thread on
"Enforcing consistent metadata for packages". I am naive about Python
packaging, so most of it goes over my head. But this comment caught my eye:
Linux distributors routinely patch sdists and build their system
packages from the resulting wheels. This patching will, /by design/,
violate the consistency rules we’re discussing. How do we handle this?
Might some Python-related ports also patch sdists? Might those ports
violate the discussed consistency rules? By design?
If so, maybe those port maintainers might be able to contribute to the
thread by sharing the MacPorts experience.
For Your Information only. If there is no issue, apologies for taking up
airtime with it.
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