On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:43:46 +1100 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote:
...
> I'd appreciate help with understanding what needs to be done, and how
> the tools should be configured to do it automatically.
As I understand it, this is a bug in setup.py for dput (at least as it relates
how things are packaged in Debian):
install_requires=[
"setuptools",
>From a Debian perspective, this is overkill, since we've split pkg-resources
out into it's own binary. pkg-resources itself doesn't require setuptools.
What the error message is telling you:
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'setuptools' distribution was not
found and is required by dput
Is that dput has said it needs setuptools and it's not found, not that pkg-
resrouces needs the rest of setuptools to run.
If you take setuptools out of install_requires and add python-pkg-resources to
Depends in debian/control, then it all works fine.
The only usage of the package is in helper/dputhelper.py and pkg-resources is
enough.
Since pkg-resources isn't seen by setuptools, so you have to do it this way as
far as I can tell.
Scott K
