[Python-apps-team] Bug#788112: src:beets: didn't say pkg installed via pip; additional info

[Jay Elem]

Package: src:beets
Followup-For: Bug #788112

Dear Maintainer,


-pkg beets has no manpage when installed via python-pip
-posted June 08 2015 at https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1501#issuecomment-110141520
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 > sampsyo commented 2 hours ago

>Yes, this is sad. But alas, it is not fixable (in the current Python packaging context).

>Here's a little bit of background:
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>    Here's another bug on another project where this is an issue with ordinary Python installs: ansible/ansible#7790
>    Here's a Stack Overflow question on the topic that peters out with a "no good way to do this yet": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3657209/python-installing-man-pages-in-distutils-based-project
>    The setuptools developer documentation, which is surprisingly unhelpful on this topic: https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#developer-s-guide
>    One blog post about a programmer shamefully resorting to an external instal.sh: http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2010/08/installing-man-pages-with-distutils.html
>    A bug report for another project that hacked together a rather dirty solution, got some flak for it, and eventually dropped the behavior: daltonmatos/wsgid#2

>So the official position of this project, somewhat mournfully, is that this needs to be handled by the OS-specific package manager, if any."





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