[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??
Janusz A. Urbanowicz
alex at bofh.net.pl
Mon Nov 28 17:39:09 CET 2005
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:49:00PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:08 PM 11/27/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >Removing the dependency checks entirely and replacing them with Debian
> >dependencies is definitely an option, and I happen to prefer it slightly
> >to the necessity of adding empty .egg-info files to all python module
> >packages.
>
> Just a reminder: without the .egg-info metadata (or something similar), we
> aren't fulfilling one of the primary use cases, which is Debian users
> wanting their bleeding-edge installs to not duplicate stable packages.
If a dedina user wants bleeding edge, she should be running sid or etch
where this is packaged. Or ubuntu.
> This is probably the number one gripe of Debian users on the TurboGears
> mailing list: "why doesn't easy_install see my Debian ElementTree package?"
> (or some other dependency). They don't seem to mind easy_install adding
> stuff to /usr/local that there's not a Debian system package for, but
> they'd like it to be able to "see" the Debian packages they've installed
> and not rebuild/reinstall them.
This should be reported as a bug toElementTree package.
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