On 15-Dec-2016, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 15.12.2016 16:00, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > Does it ever make sense to install pkg_resources and not install > > setuptools?
Yes. The ‘pkg_resources’ library allows a program to access its package resources, while most Python programs don't need to build Python distributions and hence don't need Setuptools. > https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/863 Thanks for raising that. > disagreed, dput should just remove setuptools from the requires. The ‘setuptools’ library *is* needed to build the package. Are you saying that it does not belong in the ‘install_requires’ list? On 15-Dec-2016, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I agree that the bug should be fixed in dput. It's up to dput's > maintainer to decide how I suppose. Sounds like there's agreement we > should reassign this bug back to dput. I am not yet convinced :-) Please explain how the ‘setup.py’ is incorrect now? -- \ “'Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange; / | `\ Stranger than fiction.” —“Lord” George Gordon Noel Byron, _Don | _o__) Juan_ | Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>
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