On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 09:02:40AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > 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
A further update: a package with this type of bug recently caused an RC error, as it prevented other packages from loading: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1036947 So if this check is implemented, it should probably raise an lintian Error if a package fails this check. (The related feature request #1005043 should probably only raise a warning.) Best wishes, Julian
