[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#743927: Biopython does not define egg metadata

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Aidan,

thanks for your bug report.

Could you possibly provide some patch for the build system?

If not I might ask on debian-python list for help to solve this.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Package: python-biopython
> Version: 1.59-1
> 
> Python setuptools cannot find the system installed version of biopython
> as there is no egg-info associated with the package.
> 
> I'd expect to see to see a dist-packages/Bio.egg-info file containing
> metadata.
> 
> It could be argued that the issue here is with the somewhat crufty way
> that setuptools looks for modules.  However, this appears to be the way
> things are done in the Python world and "we" should conform to this
> convention.
> 

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