Control: retitle -1 python-cryptography: extraneous setuptools dependency on cffi Control: tags -1 + pending
Argh! This is caused by an incomplete fix for #882011 of course. On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 at 22:45 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'cffi>=1.7' distribution was not > found and is required by cryptography > This problem is actually backwards from what it seems; python-cffi has a pydist file that translates into a dependency on python-cffi-backend only as python-cffi is not needed at runtime, and translated dependencies are removed from requires.txt by dh_python2. However, since dh_python2 doesn't understand the environment marker in the dependency, we are passing --depends=cffi manually to take care of the dependency; unfortunately the entry in requires.txt is thus not removed, so setuptools/pkg_resources think that cffi needs to be available. Stripping out the untranslated distributions from requires.txt ourselves should fix this, I'll upload this fix once I've done a little more testing.
