On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 07:13:56PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I honestly don't follow too much your approach :) > > You called yourself out from the team, but you try to contribute anyway...
I use the package, and I do even dare doing my own backports, finding issues, and reporting them. > what about joining it again :D ? I couldn't do too much to help. See, even my bug reports are wrong ;-) > >setup.py demends python3-setuptool-scm >= 1.7, which is not satisfied > >in Debian jessie. > > it isn't satisfied even a lower version AFAIK (however it might be not true > for people apt-pinning stuff > and not updating it) You're right. > >To make life less of python hell for backporters, please also declare > >this versioned dependencies in debian/control so that one doesn't > >spend hours guessing why package build fails. > > while this is true in general, it doesn't change too much in this particular > context. 1.7 is not part of any stable/testing/unstable Debian distribution, > and > (since upstream asked this a while ago), I personally built&signed&uploaded > setuptools-scm > for jessie backports (version 1.8) Yes, this issue might have been caused by a local package of mine built and used before borgbackup required a later version. I apologize for my lack of python knowledge. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
