Re: Philosophical question regarding setuptools dependency

[José Abílio Matos]

On Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10.04.15 WEST Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  On 15. 04. 19 19:11, José Abílio Matos wrote:
>  
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  >    recently I got a bug report regarding doit (packaged in python3-doit):
>  > 
>  > "setuptools is required at runtime"
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695045
>  > 
>  > The obvious fix is to add python3-setuptools as a BR for python3-doit.
>  
>  
>  I suppose you meant: As runtime requires. 
Yes, I meant that. I even had to double check to ensure that the fix was 
correct. (BTW it was :-) )

>  > My question here is if I should report this upstream?
>  
>  
>  Not needed. Upstream installs via pip. You already get pkg_resourcess 
>  (setuptools) and no upstream has setuptools in their requires. 
I suspected so but I was not sure and thus this thread.

>  > If this requirement were in the dependencies of the package the
> auto
>  > generator would had picked initially.
>  
>  
>  If the auto generator is capable of seeing an console_script entry point
>  (hint, yes it is) they should add setuptools to the required packages.
>  
>  We should open a RFE bug for this (on it). 
I saw that already sent a fix for this issue. Thanks. :-)
 
>  -- 
>  Miro Hrončok 
Regards,
-- 
José Abílio