[Bug 531648] Review Request: python3-setuptools - Easily build and distribute Python 3 packages

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--- Comment #3 from Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org>  2009-10-29 14:33:34 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > Anyway, I think it's a disservice to users that the setuptools package doesn't
> > include easy_install.  
> I want to stick as close as possible to the python 2 version of the package, so
> I'd suggest taking that up as a separate bug report against that package.  

I actually did once, as bug #510659.  The action to move easy_install from
python-setuptools to python-setuptools-devel was made in response to bug
#240707.  I'll reopen my bug report and give some more detailed information,
but that really doesn't have any bearing on the python3-setuptools package.

The python3-setuptools-devel package has two files:

1) /usr/bin/easy_install-3: a 9 line script that imports and runs
pkg_resources.load_entry_point

2) /usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/easy_install.py: a 5 line script that loads
and runs setuptools.command.easy_install.main

The actual dependency on python3-devel happens in the setuptools libraries, not
in these trivial scripts, so the python3-setuptools package is the one that
should depend on python3-devel package.  This is a simple matter of incorrect
dependencies in the specfile, and the packaging guidelines make it pretty clear
that python3-setuptools needs to depend on python3-devel (or the files it
depends on need to move from python3-devel to python3).

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