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Re: Dependency on pkg-resources

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Dear Stefano,

Il 06/10/24 16:06, Stefano Rivera ha scritto:
> 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.

understood, thanks
I was not considering the upstream "requires" indeed.

> 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.

OK will do

> 
> Stefano
> 

cheers
-- 
Antonio Valentino

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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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