Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 07.05.2018 03:39, Scott Talbert wrote: > About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools.  I have sent > him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't heard anything back.  > Anyone know why he did it?  I have a package that currently FTBFS because of > it.  :( > >

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Talbert writes: > Installing the egg means that all the wxpython4.0 files are installed > under: > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wxPython-4.0.1-py2.7-linux-amd64.egg > > Thus, any program or user who does an 'import wx' will get the > wxpython3.0 module and if instead

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-07 Thread Scott Talbert
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Ben Finney wrote: The source package in question is wxpython4.0. The reason I use easy_install is for installing the python2 version of the module as an egg. Okay, so from that I understand that the Debian package is not invoking ‘easy_install’ to fetch files from the

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Talbert writes: > The source package in question is wxpython4.0. The reason I use > easy_install is for installing the python2 version of the module as an > egg. Okay, so from that I understand that the Debian package is not invoking ‘easy_install’ to fetch files from the

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-07 Thread Scott Talbert
On Mon, 7 May 2018, Ben Finney wrote: About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools. I have sent him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't heard anything back. Anyone know why he did it? I have a package that currently FTBFS because of it. :( Why does a

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/07/2018 04:19 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Scott Talbert writes: > >> About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools. I >> have sent him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't >> heard anything back. Anyone know why he did it? I have a package

Re: Removal of easy_install

2018-05-06 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Talbert writes: > About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools. I > have sent him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't > heard anything back. Anyone know why he did it? I have a package > that currently FTBFS because of it. :( Why

Removal of easy_install

2018-05-06 Thread Scott Talbert
About a month ago, Matthias removed easy_install from setuptools. I have sent him a few mails and bugs asking about it, but I haven't heard anything back. Anyone know why he did it? I have a package that currently FTBFS because of it. :( python-setuptools (39.0.1-2) unstable;