[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#997772: python-cogent: FTBFS: You must configure the bibtex_bibfiles setting

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Andreas

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 19:00:05 AEDT Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 182, in
> write_pkg_file license = rfc822_escape(self.get_license())
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/distutils/util.py", line 476, in rfc822_escape
>     lines = header.split('\n')
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'

looking at setup.py, it has

    license=["BSD"],

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/python-cogent/-/blob/master/setup.py#L62 

while the documentation for the setup() function indicates that licence should 
be a string. That would certainly be consistent with the exception that is 
raised with the output of get_license().

https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/
#license

I've not checked that this is indeed the problem, but patching setup.py to 
have instead

    license="BSD",

would be the next thing I'd try.

Incidentally, I see that upstream for cogent has ripped out setup.py entirely 
and now has a flit based build system which will require a few changes to the 
packaging in the future.

cheers
Stuart


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