Thank Alexandre, This is very useful. I will drop the packaging of setuptools-git-versioning and replace the dependency by a patch like the ones you shared.
Cheers Mike Michele Cane, PhD On Friday, 29 May 2026 at 23:22, Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Nobody answered yet, so I'll answer on the only one package I know > about: setuptools-git-versioning > > I've been annoyed several times by package who don't return version > info through importlib.metadata; > enough to check the problem more deeply and fix what I could (by > adding python3-setuptools-scm most of the time) > > The cases boil down to this: > apt-file search --filter-suites unstable,experimental -- > '-0.0.0.' | grep -e egg-info -e dist-info | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u > > liste > > Many of those will document an optional dependency on > setuptools-git-versioning and do fine without. > > Some are patched out, see > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=setuptools-git-versioning&literal=1 > - toolz > - the patch is needed becaue upstream depends on > setuptools-git-versioning, which is not available in Debian. > > https://sources.debian.org/src/python-logistro/2.0.1+dfsg1-2/tests/test_version.py?hl=13#L13 > > So it seems a nice addition; but I'm not sure it would so much useful > as-is for regular packages. > > We would most likely need glue similar to the "export > SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION" > thing done by dh-python > > Greetings > > Alexandre > > PS: theres is also this lintian request worth checking: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034588 > > > Le ven. 29 mai 2026 à 15:03, Michele Cane <[email protected]> a écrit : > > setuptools-git-versioning: > > https://salsa.debian.org/heiserhorn/setuptools-git-versioning > > > > The following packages have been identified as direct or indirect > > dependencies of Rayforge (the list may not yet be exhaustive): > > Python: > > setuptools-git-versioning >
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