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Re: RFC: Packaging pyartnet - Patch build system from uv to setuptools?

From	Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: RFC: Packaging pyartnet - Patch build system from uv to setuptools?
Date	2026-01-01 18:40 +0100
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 18:25, Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 06:17:04PM +0100, Arian Ott wrote:
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >I am currently packaging pyartnet for Debian (Bug: 1124471). The upstream
> >project uses uv as build backend. When building the package, gbp fails
> >since uv_build is unavailable and can't be imported.
> >
> >Pyartnet requires no significant external libraries.
> >Can I switch the build backend to setuptools using a patch or is this
> >considered bad practice?
> >
> >
> https://salsa.debian.org/Arian-Ott/pyartnet/-/blob/debian/latest/pyproject.toml?ref_type=heads#L62-64
>
> I would do that (and did for python-cryptography-vectors, though that
> package is trivial and doesn't contain Python code, and I was just
> reverting an upstream change, not even writing my own patch).
>
>
Thanks for the confirmation! I will proceed with the patch to setuptools
then.
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Arian
arian.ott@ieee.org

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RFC: Packaging pyartnet - Patch build system from uv to setuptools? Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-01 18:20 +0100
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