On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 07:57:58PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:45:21PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I just hit two packages which gave me the following warning when > > pkg_resources tried to load them: > > > > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: > > PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning: 1.12.1-git20200711.33e2d80-dfsg1-0.6 is an > > invalid version and will not be supported in a future release > > warnings.warn( > This looks strange to me. I wouldn't expect the package version > (especially with the Debian part) to be there. > I see flatbuffers runs `VERSION=$(DEB_VERSION) python$$pv setup.py build`, > I don't know why, or whether this is a good idea.
Some updates on this: * The version information can also appear in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/*.dist-info/METADATA * The upstream standard is defined in PEP 440: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/ I agree, flatbuffers is doing weird stuff. Best wishes, Julian
