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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <Hbjl7-7jsV-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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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