Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Removal of easy_install Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 04:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon May 7 02:20:10 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.957 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RDNS_NONE=0.793] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Cancel-Lock: sha1:FuFo3U7ObRA6A/i84d0MsqSXb2A= X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15905 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85d0y8p5q6.fsf@benfinney.id.au Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 12:19:45 +1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <85d0y8p5q6.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Original-References: X-Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10501 Scott Talbert writes: > About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools. I > have sent him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't > heard anything back. Anyone know why he did it? I have a package > that currently FTBFS because of it. :( Why does a source package *build* need to use ‘easy_install’? The source package should not need any network access to build, all the source should be in Debian source packages that are fetched before the build begins. Which package is the one that's failing to build now? -- \ “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I | `\ prayed with my legs.” —Frederick Douglass, escaped slave | _o__) | Ben Finney