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Re: Dependency on pkg-resources

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Hi Antonio (2024.10.05_10:30:07_+0000)
> I started working on the ones for which I'm maintainer and I realized that
> for some of them (e.g. pyresample and cyarray) there is no direct dependency
> from "python3-pkg-resources" in the debian/control file.
> 
> Apparently the dependency is injected by dh-python in the final package, as
> far as I can understand.

It's coming from an upstream dependency on setuptools (requires).

Most packages do not have any need for setuptools at runtime. So Debian
splits pkg-resources from setuptools. If a package declares a python
dependency on setuptools, we convert that into a Debian dependency on
python3-pkg-resources. If a package *really* needs setuptools at runtime,
it adds an explicit Debian dependency on it.

So, in your case, the upstream probably has a completely unnecessary
requires for setuptools. Probably should use install_requires instead,
or even better pyproject's build-system requires.

> What is the recommended way to proceed?

Submit a patch to your upstream, removing the unnecessary requires.

Stefano

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Dependency on pkg-resources Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it> - 2024-10-05 12:40 +0200
  Re: Dependency on pkg-resources Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-10-06 16:10 +0200
    Re: Dependency on pkg-resources Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it> - 2024-10-07 19:50 +0200
    Re: Dependency on pkg-resources Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@trueelena.org> - 2024-12-03 13:30 +0100
      Re: Dependency on pkg-resources Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2024-12-03 13:40 +0100
        Re: Dependency on pkg-resources Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@trueelena.org> - 2024-12-03 14:20 +0100

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