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Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points?

From Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points?
Date 2015-12-08 17:50 +0100
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On Dec 07 2015, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
> On Dec 07, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
>>Would it make sense to do a no-change rebuild for all Python packages
>>that use setuptool's entry point functionality?
>>
>>It'd be nice to have https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issues/443/
>>fixed in stretch. I believe most packages will see new releases anyway
>>(and thus get the change), but I believe there are at least some
>>packages that are rarely touched...
>
> I'm also not sure how many packages it affects in practice.  We could also let
> rebuilds be bug-driven.

Aeh, you know about a bug and you want to delay fixing it until someone
has reporeds it for every affected package? This seems like a pretty
inconsiderate waste of time for both users and maintainers.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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Rebuild for packages with entry points? Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2015-12-07 19:30 +0100
  Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-12-07 20:10 +0100
    Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2015-12-07 22:10 +0100
      Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2015-12-08 18:00 +0100
        Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2015-12-09 01:40 +0100
    Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2015-12-08 17:50 +0100
      Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-12-08 18:00 +0100
        Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2015-12-08 23:10 +0100
          Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-12-09 09:40 +0100
  Re: Rebuild for packages with entry points? Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2015-12-09 07:10 +0100

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