[Distutils] making eggs and debs live together peacefully

[Frédéric Gobry]

> The best way is going to convince deb packagers to include the egg
> info so that setuptools can see that the package is in place. Each
> package comes with its own meta-data.

Indeed, this looks like the right way (tm), but in the meantime wouldn't
it be reasonable to include a transition mechanism?

> I'm certain Fedora will be heading in this direction.

I'll try to see if there is something pending for debian
(python-setuptools is part of testing, so...) 

[...dig dig dig...]

Yuck, I hope to find something more positive than that:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005470.html>

:-(

Frédéric

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