[Debian-iot-maintainers] Bug#1132683: pyicloud: please add a build-dependency on python3-setuptools-scm to generate correct dist-info

[Alexandre Detiste]

Source: pyicloud
Version: 2.3.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi Thorsten,

The version number is not know by the setuptools framework
during the build and the .deb files ends up containing
these weird 0.0.0 files. This has other impacts:
same weird output with 'pip list';
importlib.metadata.version() fails.

Please add a build-dependency on python3-setuptools-scm to fix this.

This should be a Lintian warning: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034588


Greetings

Alexandre



AS-IS:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/python3-pyicloud/filelist

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-0.0.0.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-0.0.0.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-0.0.0.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-0.0.0.dist-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-0.0.0.dist-info/top_level.txt


TO-BE:

$ debc | grep info
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         7 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/INSTALLER
-rw-r--r-- root/root     29871 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/METADATA
-rw-r--r-- root/root        91 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/WHEEL
-rw-r--r-- root/root        49 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/entry_points.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root         9 2026-02-14 13:49 ./usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyicloud-2.3.0.dist-info/top_level.txt