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 Stephan Peijnik
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:37 -0800, Brian Warner wrote: > How hard would it be to use python-support instead of pyshared for the > new python-foolscap package? 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 switc

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