New submission from Jan Gosmann:
If there is a symbolic link to a non-existing file anywhere in the source tree
"python setup.py sdist" fails with an output like the following:
running sdist
running check
warning: check: missing required meta-data: url
error: abc: No such file or directory
Pruning the problematic path with a MANIFEST.in file does not help.
I could locate the culprit in filelist.py
<http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c82dcad83438/Lib/distutils/filelist.py> in
line 267:
stat = os.stat(fullname)
fails for symlinks to non-existing files. Maybe os.lstat should be used? Or it
should be checked before os.stat if it is a symlink to a nonexisting file?
In case you wonder why I have links to non-existing files in my source tree:
Those can be left behind by automated tests I'm using and are not supposed to
be part of the source (or any other) distribution. But as I said, the error is
not prevented by excluding them with a MANIFEST.in file. My current workaround
is to delete all the leftovers from the test as first thing in setup.py.
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components: Distutils
messages: 216930
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, jgosmann
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sdist fails with symbolic links do non-existing files
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3
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