commit: 1cb5d7bab0f5f9da37a0b68d234c66484ec592d2 Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Sep 3 21:07:42 2021 +0000 Commit: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Sep 5 17:00:50 2021 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=1cb5d7ba
2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage: add item Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811504 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam <AT> gentoo.org> ...-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) diff --git a/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt b/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..988002c --- /dev/null +++ b/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Title: setuptools_scm-6.3.0 temporary runtime breakage +Author: Arthur Zamarin <[email protected]> +Author: Sam James <[email protected]> +Posted: 2021-09-05 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 + +Users who upgraded to =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 between 2021-09-03 +15:42 UTC and 2021-09-03 19:03 UTC may be affected by a bug [0]. If you have not +upgraded to this version or have >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0-r1 installed, +you are not affected. + +A missing dependency in the setuptools_scm ebuild meant there was a timeframe in +which anyone who installed dev-python/setuptools_scm and dev-python/packaging in +the wrong order won't be able to build any Python package using setuptools +unless a workaround is applied. + +Specifically, this affects users with =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 installed +and where dev-python/packaging is not installed (applies separately for each/any +Python target). The bad tree state was between gentoo.git commits +8882e54abf78d3af69faed5844e3ad441482f23e and +0c76b447cd1be9cf611f649970851750304d9ca6. + +Affected users will see errors similar to the following when installing Python +packages: +``` +pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'packaging>=20.0' distribution was not +found and is required by the application +``` + +To fix this manually, you need to fully remove all dev-python/setuptools_scm +files by running the following commands: + +# Necessary to obtain a fixed version of setuptools_scm +$ emerge --sync + +# --unmerge is NOT advised normally, but is required to avoid setuptools picking +# up the runtime-broken setuptools_scm version when re-installing setuptools_scm +$ emerge --unmerge =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 + +$ emerge --oneshot dev-python/setuptools dev-python/pyparsing dev-python/packaging +$ emerge --oneshot ">=dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0-r1" + +Note that the version specifiers above are not strictly necessary if you have an +up-to-date copy of the tree but provide a safety net. + +[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/811504 +
