On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:15:12 -0400 Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> writes: > > > On May 2, 2020 4:17:20 AM UTC, Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org> wrote: > >>> pybuild will want to support it > >> > >>Some discussion has started on the mailing list, > >> > >>https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2020/04/msg00061.html > > > > As mentioned in the thread, there's a pybuild plugin for packages that use > > flit to build based on pyproject.toml. It's in git, staged for the next > > upload. The pep517 package can also build packages using pyproject.toml, > > but it isn't, IMO, suitable for integration with pybuild because it's to > > heavy weight. > > > > I've been thinking of the approach of using something like Dephell to > convert from any of these: > https://dephell.readthedocs.io/cmd-deps-convert.html > > to setup.py. Assuming pyproject.toml becomes a widely adopted standard, > the future benefit for this package would become for Debianising > packages using less popular formats. > > I'm not familiar with pep517, but Dephell (ITP #962574) also seems too > heavy weight for core usage like dh_python. Increasingly upstreams > don't provide setup.py in their git repos, and PyPI releases often don't > have everything that is required to run autopkgtests, and I was forced > to choose the PyPI release with no autopkgtests. > > While searching for info on if pep517 could be used to convert to > setup.py, I found pyproject2setuppy: > > https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2019/12/24/handling-pep-517-pyproject-toml-packages-in-gentoo/ > > Something like this strikes me as a something that might meet our needs, > and it seems like a good opportunity for inter-distro collaboration!
Hi, Any update on this issue? The new version of a package I maintain, javaproperties, has now removed setup.py but sets "setuptools.build_meta" as build-backend, so the flit plugin integration doesn't work. Is there any solution? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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