[Python-modules-team] Bug#839687: how to manage setuptools-scm packages in debian?

[Antoine Beaupré]

Answering my own question (and it would be nice to have this documented
somewhere!), the solution is to use a more recent dh-python dependency
and depend on python-setuptools-scm explicitely, *and* use
--buildsystem=pybuild.

I cargo-culted the  (>= 2.20160609~) dependency from python-keyring, but
I don't really know what I am doing.

I expected something about this to be documented in a README.Debian
file.

A.
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