Hello, I wonder if anyone can provide some advice about setuptools_scm interactions with pybuild.
I have been struggling to get some software packaged that relies on setuptools_scm. It seems to effectively ignore the package data section in a pyproject.toml file and to include a broader collection of files when being built using "python3 -m build". (Obviously, such practices are less than helpful: why bother with declarations of packaged files if something is going to magically "discover" the files, anyway? Why use magical "do what I mean" tooling in the first place? That might be the more awkward question, I suppose.) Since setuptools_scm is integrated into pyproject.toml so as to be invoked with the appropriate incantations present in that file, I assumed that pybuild might cause it to be invoked, too. However, what I see is that the files that should supposedly be included in the package are missing. Running the command that pybuild invokes from within the source distribution for the software... python3 -m build --skip-dependency-check --no-isolation --wheel --outdir dist ...yields a wheel with all the missing files. But when invoked by pybuild, itself invoked by gbp build-package, only the declared files seem to be included. I can obviously work around this by patching pyproject.toml, but upstream seems to be uninterested in supporting anyone not invoking the setuptools_scm magic. I added python3-setuptools-scm to Build-Depends. Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? Thanks in advance, Paul
