Hi Matthias (2025.11.27_06:07:29_-0400)
so apparently this is dh_python misbehaving ...
Yeah, it is.
It's consulting the fallback list first, rather than as a fallback.
And the fallback list contains:
$ grep setuptools /usr/share/dh-python/dist/cpython3_fallback
setuptools python3-pkg-resources
There's a reason that it's doing what it's doing here. We intentionally
wanted to map setuptools to pkg-resources in runtime dependencies.
Because almost all runtime dependencies are setuptools were really
dependencies on pkg-resources.
We used to ask packages to explicitly add runtime dependencies on
python3-setuptools, if they *really* needed setuptools itself at
runtime.
I didn't realise that was only happening in the fallback list, and not
in python3-setuptools itself (I assumed it was publishing a pydist file
to declare that it wanted that).
I'll remove the fallback list re-mapping. And see if I can really make
it be a fallback.
Stefano
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