Bug#499699: setuptools issue

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Warner
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:39:59 +0100 Stephan Peijnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As python-central seems to be unaffected by this issue as well (that's > at least what some research on the net suggests) I am going to switch to > python-central. I just pushed this update to SVN. That seems to fix t

Bug#499699: setuptools issue

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Warner
So, one issue I just noticed about the proposed packaging is that, because it uses python-support instead of pyshared, it tickles some bugs in setuptools that show up in our Tahoe project. It seems that setuptools is not as good at finding metadata in python-support -provided packages as in pyshare

Bug#499699: update?

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Warner
What's the status of this one? Stephan showed me some packaging work in the python-modules team's SVN repository[1] that looked great. It sounded like it was in the NEW queue at one point, but I don't see it there any longer. Did it get rejected? cheers, -Brian (upstream author of Foolscap) [1]