[Distutils] Problems with setup.py

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:30 PM 7/28/2009 +0100, Josh Holland wrote:
>I am currently having difficulty with a setup.py script. The problem was
>originally brought to my attention by someone packaging the project for
>Fedora 11, but I can reproduce a similar problem on my Jaunty box.
>
>When "python setup.py build" is run, the following output is produced
>(running with -n switch):
>running install
>running build
>running build_py
>running build_ext
>running build_scripts
>changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/suvat
>running install_lib
>running install_scripts
>changing mode of /usr/local/bin/suvat
>running install_data
>error: can't copy 'd': doesn't exist or not a regular file
>
>This is for me; the Fedora issue is with 's' instead of 'd'. This is
>with different versions of setup.py.

This line is wrong:

    data_files = [('/usr/share/man/man1', 'doc/suvat.1.gz')],

See 
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/dist/setup-script.html#SECTION000350000000000000000 
for why/how.