On Mon, 09 Jan 2023, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023/01/09 09:53, Florian Obser wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > after moving ephemetoot to a different server it failed thusly: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/bin/ephemetoot", line 5, in <module> > > from ephemetoot.console import main > > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ephemetoot/console.py", > > line 33, in <module> > > import pkg_resources > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' > > > > Turns out the old server had py3-setuptools installed for unrelated > > reasons. > > > > So should this just be a run-dep? I don't have time to figure out *why* > > it wants pkg_resources, that seems... odd... for a normal package. > > I've added the RDEP (I dropped the automatic RDEP for all setuptools > ports with the switch to py3.10 as the default version; most ports don't > need it). > > ephemetoot's use of pkg_resources is in > https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot/blob/999abcb934a66ac6e054ad0846984b42594b2199/ephemetoot/console.py#L39 > - seems this could be easily replaced with > https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#version (in > core Python and now generally considered a better idea).
Thank you Stuart for taking care of this and Florian for bringing it up. I've sent a patch upstream to remove the dependency and use importlib.metadata instead. -- Paco Esteban. 0x5818130B8A6DBC03
