On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Andreas Tille wrote:
Am Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 01:42:53PM +0100 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
I'm sure I'm not the only one who received a whole bunch of bugs
entitled "Fails to build source after successful build" last weekend.
There was one theme common to most of them: the presence of a
*.egg-info directory which was not cleaned by debian/rules clean.
I know the bug report said that this policy is currently under
discussion, but I did get thinking about it. I imagine that this
particular directory should be the responsibility of dh-python to
clean up, but it may not be sensible to always delete *.egg-info
directories, as they may be present in the orig.tar.gz file. One
could handle it by manually adding this directory to debian/clean in
each package, but perhaps this should be the default behaviour of
dh-python?
Any thoughts?
I agree that having this a no-brainer and getting all this *.egg-info
caused bugs solved by a simple dh-python update without changing
packaging code would be extremely convenient. I could imagine creating
a backup of the affected *.egg-info files if existent and copy these
back in clean target could solve this.
It is being worked on:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/46
Regards,
Scott
