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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2016-10-04 16:17:19, Ondrej Novy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2016-10-03 23:53 GMT+02:00 Antoine Beaupré <anarcat at debian.org>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> as author of this addon in pybuild: Yes, this is correct. :)
>
>
>> I cargo-culted the  (>= 2.20160609~) dependency from python-keyring, but
>> I don't really know what I am doing.
>>
>
> as author of change in python-keyring: yep >= 2.20160609~ is correct :)
>
> I expected something about this to be documented in a README.Debian
>> file.
>>
>
> in dh-python? Maybe on wiki?

I looked in /usr/share/doc/python-setuptools-scm/ and didn't find a
README. That's where I looked first. I also looked at the pybuild page
here:

https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Pybuild

I didn't look in dh-python's docs.

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