[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If y

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thomas, sorry if my message was short and unclear. The freeze policy means that distutils does not get new features, only bug fixes. The goal is to free time so that the developers (especially Tarek) can work on distutils2, the next generation. When I said th

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Anyone got a reply for msg107898? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: What do you mean, it's frozen ? Without the patch you're already breaking a third party tool, namely rpm. What other tool worth caring about that uses bdist_rpm could possibly get broken by fixing an obvious bug ? Why is it so impossible to simply fi

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Éric Araujo added the comment: Distutils is frozen, since changing even internal details breaks third-party tools, and Distutils2 has removed RPM support, since it’s better handled by OS-specific tools that comply with various policies and have smaller release cycles. Tarek, are you closing t

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Ok, so this patch can go in as is except for changing .gz to * ? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Toshio Kuratomi added the comment: Agreed. The substitution is still needed. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Hi Toshio, I'd probably also go for the wildcarding, but you'd still need to 'change' the INSTALLED_FILES file to do so, so you'd still use the same mechanism. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Toshio Kuratomi added the comment: sed is one of the programs we assume is always present when we build packages in Fedora which is probably also what is wanted here. (A default install of Fedora will include sed but someone might be able to create a minimal install that did not include it.) No

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I'd rather see sed called from within Distutils. But I am not sure how to handle it after install has been called. Do you know if sed is *always* present on a fresh Fedora ? (I am nosying Toshio as well) -- assignee: -> tarek nosy: +a.badger type: -> b

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Attaching a reworked patch of the patch attached in http://bugs.python.org/issue1169193 This worked for me on f-11, with python 2.6 -- keywords: +patch nosy: +thomasvs Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15383/distutils.bdist_rpm.patch

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Akira Kitada added the comment: Duplicate of issue1169193 -- nosy: +akitada, tarek ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili