Michał Górny added the comment:
Oh, sorry. I've looked throughout the code again and it seems that distutils is
doing the right thing. It's setuptools/distribute that is broken.
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resolution: - invalid
status: open - closed
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Éric Araujo added the comment:
There are a handful of issues related to symlinks handling in distutils. From
the discussion on #15205 , the state of things is that basically distutils has
no defined behaviour with respect to symlinks, and it’s not clear to me what
the desired behaviour would
Michał Górny added the comment:
Well, I don't see much relevance between the two bugs, to be honest :). I think
this bug is more of a symptom of a deeper issue with the way distutils is
installing files.
But the issue is causing repeating issues for our users, and I don't really
know what is
New submission from Michał Górny:
We're doing heavy wrapping of Python scripts on Gentoo in order to efficiently
support having multiple versions of Python installed. For that reason, every
Python script installed using the package manager is renamed, and a symlink to
a common wrapper binary
Changes by Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org:
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type: - behavior
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http://bugs.python.org/issue18201
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