[Distutils] zc.buildout fails to use system-installed dep?

[Brian Sutherland]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:17:02AM +0100, Alan Franzoni wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Alan Franzoni <mailing at franzoni.eu> wrote:
> [cut]
> 
> It appears that the zope.interface mantainer from Debian manually
> copies the unnecessary - and confusing - __init__.py files:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-zope/zope.interface/trunk/debian/rules?revision=2074&view=markup
> 
> It seems the only package in the python-zope.* hierarchy doing that; I
> don't know why.
> 
> I have opened a ticket in Ubuntu:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zope.interface/+bug/688335
> 
> I'm unable to do the same in Debian although it's probably there,
> because they seem to have no web interface and I don't have a Debian
> machine available right now. If anybody could check it and do so it
> would be great.

Please don't, this has been reported various times already.

Removing the zope/__init__.py causes breakage in other places, as I
detail in my response to your bug.

I would guess that the real bug is at a deeper level.

-- 
Brian Sutherland