Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Anna <cyber+gentoo@×××××.in>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a solution to the distutils/setuptools .egg-info mess
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:01:46
Message-Id: YdwgH4xKvQqtwfkv@sysrq.in
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a solution to the distutils/setuptools .egg-info mess by "Michał Górny"
1 On 2022-01-10 06:39, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > 1. For a start, with distutils deprecated are actually migrating to
3 > setuptools or other build systems upstream. This effectively solves
4 > the problem for us since the .egg-info switch happens on version bump
5 > and there is no file collision.
6
7 Deprecation warnings may go unnoticed on upstream's end. Tinderbox can
8 open bugs (same as it does with setuptools warnings) for packages using
9 distutils to encourage maintainers report this to upstream issue
10 trackers.
11
12 >However, this isn't going to help for dead projects.
13
14 Dead dependencies probably should be reported upstream too.

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