On 27/05/2013 17:35, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>, 2013-05-27, 18:19: >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 16:05:51 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >>> Thanks for this analysis. It looks like the best approach would be >>> to add a Build-Depends on python-setuptools (to ensure it _always_ >>> rather than accidentally happens, and because it seems to be the >>> preferred approach from the setup.py file), and delete the symlink >>> from -1 in the preinst of the replacement package? > > That should do the trick. > >> A build-conflicts would be much better. > > Like Julien, I'm not an enthusiast of setuptools; but I'd rather avoid > build-conflicting with packages that are commonly installed on users' > systems. Instead, I would patch setup.py to never import setuptools. > Can you explain why it would be better not to use setuptools?
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