New submission from glep:
Suppose I have a setup.py with the option
...
packages=['package', 'package.utils'],
package_dir={'package.utils', '../utils'},
...
as would arise if ../utils was a package shared between several projets
('package', 'package1', ...).
I would expect the source distribution created by 'python setup.py sdist'
to create an archive with the following structure:
/
|-- package/
|-- package/utils
And this is indeed what *bdist* does. BUT *sdist* copies '../utils' in
'package/../utils' instead of 'package/utils', with the result that utils is
outside of the distribution altogether.
The issue is referenced in a couple of StackOverflow posts that have attracted
little attention so far, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35510972/inconsistent-behaviour-of-bdist-vs-sdist-when-distributing-a-python-package
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components: Distutils
messages: 260904
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, glep
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: setup.py sdist mishandles package_dir option
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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