[Python-modules-team] Bug#963020: impacket breaks smbmap autopkgtest: No module named 'pkg_resources'

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Actually your fix does not work because pkg_resources is not documented in
> setup.py or requirements.txt and thus it will not magically appear in
> ${python3:Depends} just by adding it in Build-Depends.
> 
> I opened https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket/issues/885 upstream to
> get this fixed but in the meantime we have to hardcode the dependency in
> Depends. I'll do that for now.

Actually, I'm not sure that anything needs to happen at the upstream
level... pkg_resources is part of setuptools, we have packaged it
separately but I believe that there's no way for us to track its usage
based on upstream dependencies so we must always manually add such a
depency (this really smells like a big deficiency in our packaging tools).

Am I correct?

Should upstream list setuptools in their requirements.txt or setup.py
because they use "pkg_resources"?

Cheers,
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