Hi Étienne
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, 16:08 Étienne Mollier, <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> While investigating test failures in Qiime2, I came up with
> issues using the python module pkg_resources, which yields empty
> sets while it should return a "dummy-plugin" entry point, and
> this:
>
> Andreas Tille, on 2020-09-30 18:15:22 +0200:
> > package_name = 'cobra'
> > additional = ('pip', 'flit', 'pbr', 'setuptools', 'wheel')
> >
> > def get_pkg_info(
> > package_name, additional=("pip", "flit", "pbr", "setuptools",
> "wheel")
> > ):
> > """Return build and package dependencies as a dict."""
> > dist_index = build_dist_index(pkg_resources.working_set)
> > > root = dist_index[package_name]
> > E KeyError: 'cobra'
> >
> > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/depinfo/info.py:47: KeyError
>
> could be somewhat similar.
>
> I'm afraid I haven't found a solution yet on either side, but
> I'm wondering if there wouldn't have been a change of behavior
> on pkg_resources side.
>
> Just a thought...
>
Maybe you're right. There's a similar pkg_resources error for gubbins FTBFS
bug report[1] as well.
While in principle it _should_ load the version properly, and it was doing
so earlier.
I'm not really sure of what changed exactly though - but I also do see this
on a couple of other python packages as well.
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=971111
Kind Regards,
Nilesh
