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

From Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to build after successful build
Date 2023-09-07 11:20 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 08:05:45AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> 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?

Lots of packages depend on the egg-info directory being present.

$ grep EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT /usr/bin/*

will give a (probably very long) list of executables that depend on an
egg-info (or equivalent) directory being present.

Best wishes,

   Julian

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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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