Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Simon McVittie Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:10:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Dec 7 21:04:25 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 NOT_IN_BL_NJABL=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_HELO_IP=-2 (check from: .debian. - helo: .illusion.pseudorandom. - helo-domain: .pseudorandom.) FROM/MX_MATCHES_NOT_HELO(DOMAIN)=0; rate: -5 X-Sending-Uid: 1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13269 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5665F448.9040909@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 14 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 21:04:08 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <5665F448.9040909@debian.org> X-Original-References: <87mvtmt8yx.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <20151207140022.1e7f9e19@limelight.wooz.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:7953 On 07/12/15 19:00, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Dec 07, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> It'd be nice to have https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issues/443/ >> fixed in stretch. > > I'm also not sure how many packages it affects in practice. We could also let > rebuilds be bug-driven. This looks like a job for Lintian, assuming setuptools entry points are easy to detect with a regex. Conveniently, Python's re uses Perl-compatible regular expressions, so many Python developers are probably already familiar with the syntax. S