Proven packager help requested: Rebuild python-tag

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:35:39 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 12:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > It fails for both Rawhide and F20 in koji's mock, because it tries to
> > download "distribute" (a fork of "setuptools"):
> > 
> > [...]
> > + python setup.py build
> > Downloading
> > http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.19.tar.gz
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > [...]
> > urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
> 
> Thanks for looking into this Michael.
> 
> I see some info about python-distribute here[1], and a closed review
> ticket here[2]. Would contacting the change owners be the way to go
> here? I can comment on the tracker bug[3] if it is.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_setuptools_0.7
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606019
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998574

distribute-0.6.19 is very old and from 2011. Latest would have been 0.6.49
from 2013, but it has been merged back into setuptools.

Patching out the "distribute" check might be one way forward -> bug 991882

  # repoquery --whatrequires python-tag
  sonata-0:1.6.2.1-10.fc20.x86_64

That's a front-end for MPD (package "mpd" at RPM Fusion), which uses
python-tag (tagpy) for its tag editor. Somebody will need to test whether
it still works. The tagpy module still imports at least.