Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Removal of easy_install Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 12:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed May 9 10:37:44 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.6 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -5 Old-X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org 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: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15920 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/f3ec846f-4459-d34d-20b7-83dcb6cfb019@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 15 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 12:37:03 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10516 On 07.05.2018 03:39, Scott Talbert wrote: > 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.  :( > > python-setuptools (39.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium > >   * Make the PKG-INFO output reproducible (Chris Lamb). Closes: #894215. >   * Stop shipping the easy_install scripts. > >  -- Matthias Klose   Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:46:01 +0200 easy_install isn't the preferred method to install things anymore, but you you still can use python3 -m easy_install if you still need to use it.