On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 18:25, Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 06:17:04PM +0100, Arian Ott wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I am currently packaging pyartnet for Debian (Bug: 1124471). The upstream > >project uses uv as build backend. When building the package, gbp fails > >since uv_build is unavailable and can't be imported. > > > >Pyartnet requires no significant external libraries. > >Can I switch the build backend to setuptools using a patch or is this > >considered bad practice? > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/Arian-Ott/pyartnet/-/blob/debian/latest/pyproject.toml?ref_type=heads#L62-64 > > I would do that (and did for python-cryptography-vectors, though that > package is trivial and doesn't contain Python code, and I was just > reverting an upstream change, not even writing my own patch). > > Thanks for the confirmation! I will proceed with the patch to setuptools then. --- Arian [email protected]
