Package: src:beets Followup-For: Bug #788112 Dear Maintainer,
-pkg beets has no manpage when installed via python-pip -posted June 08 2015 at https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1501#issuecomment-110141520 " > sampsyo commented 2 hours ago >Yes, this is sad. But alas, it is not fixable (in the current Python packaging >context). >Here's a little bit of background: > > Here's another bug on another project where this is an issue with ordinary > Python installs: ansible/ansible#7790 > Here's a Stack Overflow question on the topic that peters out with a "no > good way to do this yet": > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3657209/python-installing-man-pages-in-distutils-based-project > The setuptools developer documentation, which is surprisingly unhelpful on > this topic: > https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#developer-s-guide > One blog post about a programmer shamefully resorting to an external > instal.sh: > http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2010/08/installing-man-pages-with-distutils.html > A bug report for another project that hacked together a rather dirty > solution, got some flak for it, and eventually dropped the behavior: > daltonmatos/wsgid#2 >So the official position of this project, somewhat mournfully, is that this >needs to be handled by the OS-specific package manager, if any." -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
