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

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:46:39 +0200 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 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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