On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 10:57:20PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Personally I feel that running setup.py code inside the package is a > "no-go" for Lintian; perhaps there is another way we can "trivially" > extract it from setup.py?
Not running code is a very good point. Unfortunately, there is no other portable way, since the setup.py code may be executing code to extract the version number from elsewhere (and frequently does, for my own packages: "import foo" and then using foo.__version__ for the version number). So I guess this is not an appropriate check for lintian after all. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
