On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:34:32PM -0400, Simon Bonner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a user of nssbackup and noticed today that the package has been > out-of-date for a while. A comment was posted to the maintainer on Feb 7 > and the package was flagged out of date on Feb 21, but it seems that no > action has been taken since. > > I'd be happy to maintain it if someone can offer a little help with > building the new version. I've tried building both the most recent 0.2 > release and the new 0.3.1 release, and neither currently work. Both give > the same error message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "setup.py", line 3, in <module> > from setuptools import setup, find_packages > ImportError: No module named setuptools > > I've seen that several packages have had similar errors fixed by > installing the python2-distribute package, but I have this installed > already. > > Thanks for your help, > > Simon > >
The name doesn't lie. Not. So. Simple. This build-sys is utterly insane. Upstream has done an amazing job of stopping packagers at every turn if you're not a debian distro. It's really more than just changing setup.py to use python2, it's a whole host of removing the crazy. I've no idea if this actually works, but it builds without errors: http://pkgbuild.com/~dreisner/nssbackup-0.3.1-1.src.tar.gz dave
