[Python-modules-team] Bug#890200: PyQt5 package should provide an egg-info

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday, February 11, 2018 09:19:59 PM VA wrote:
> Package: python-pyqt5
> Version: 5.9.2+dfsg-1
> 
> Many Debian python packages include an egg-info folder, but python-pyqt5
> does not.

The PyQt5 upstream does not use standard Python tools for building the 
package.  As shipped by upstream, a source build of PyQt5:

python3 configure.py
make
sudo make install

does not install any egg information.  Only the upstream wheels provide 
anything.  They provide a PyQt5-5.10.dist-info directory which appears to 
perform a similar function.

This is probably not feasible in Debian as we split PyQt5 into a number of 
sub-packages to minimize the dependencies that get pulled in for various 
applications.  I'm not sure how to manage the egg-info for such a case.

Scott K