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Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to build after successful build

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As a followup question, I have noticed that a lot of packages (including electrum, which I 
have recently started maintaining) ship the egg-info directory.  Looking through /usr/lib/
python3/dist-packages/, this is common but not universal.  Is there any reason to ship this 
directory or should it be removed from the binary packages?

Also, the commit linked to below states:

"if the egg-info directory is included in the upstream source, then
  deleting it causes no harm as dpkg-source warns on missing files in
  the source package but does not exit with error.”

It might not cause any problems for dpkg-source, but won’t it cause issues for double 
builds?  For reference:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1044268[1]

If so, any package that ships the egg-info directory in the tarball will get flagged with a 
FTBFS bug, which might be the desired behavior if these shouldn’t be in the tarball anyway.

On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 5:52:18 AM MST Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2023-09-05 14:16:55 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > Yes, we can have dh-python to do the work, but IMO, the only thing
> > it should be doing, is rm -rf *.egg-info, and error out if the
> > egg-info is within the orig tarball, as this should not happen,
> > IMO.
> 
> [...]
> 
> See
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/commit/31eff8f
> which merged last week.


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Soren Stoutner
soren@stoutner.com

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[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1044268

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Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to  build after successful build Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2023-08-18 15:10 +0200
  Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2023-08-18 15:20 +0200
    Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2023-08-18 15:30 +0200
      Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2023-08-18 15:50 +0200
  Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2023-08-18 15:30 +0200
  Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to  build after successful build Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2023-09-05 14:20 +0200
    Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2023-09-06 15:20 +0200
        Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to build  after successful build Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-09-06 17:50 +0200
        Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to build after successful build Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2023-09-06 18:00 +0200
        Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing  to build after successful build Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2023-09-07 11:20 +0200
        Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to  build after successful build Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2023-09-07 11:20 +0200

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