On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 08:05:53PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > So I don't quite understand how this can possibly happen: setuptools is > required to build the package in the first place, why can't dh-python > figure that out on its own?
Thank you for your attention to detail. I admit having little clue about the situation around pkg-resources. I still think that it is a bug to miss a dependency on it, but your case is very convincing for shifting the responsibility to insert it to dh-python or something else. Adding pkg-resources to depends should not be the responsibility of individual packages as that'd be fragile. > It's a little strange to expect upstream to add a install_requires on > setuptools when it's part of the install process itself, ie. if you run > `setup.py install` (which is how dh-python builds the package), isn't it > reasonable from upstream to assume that setuptools will be installed at > that stage? Yeah, having upstream take care of Debian's idiosyncrasies doesn't make much sense. > What should be done here? The issue has come up on debian-python@l.d.o as well: https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2018/04/msg00067.html I suggest following up there. I'm fairly surprised that this hasn't come up any earlier. Helmut
