Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Removal of easy_install Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 14:30:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon May 7 12:25:01 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15908 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/01afec8d-9f46-7398-2620-a44dcde17564@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 14:24:38 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <01afec8d-9f46-7398-2620-a44dcde17564@debian.org> X-Original-References: <85d0y8p5q6.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10504 On 05/07/2018 04:19 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Scott Talbert writes: >=20 >> 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. :( >=20 > Why does a source package *build* need to use =E2=80=98easy_install=E2=80= =99? 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. >=20 > Which package is the one that's failing to build now? I agree with the above. Never the less, I don't see why we wouldn't ship easy_install anymore, it's still useful (outside of packaging). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)