[Reproducible-builds] Bug#821777: Bug#821777: Bug#821777: diffoscope fails with "pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: python-magic"

Tue Apr 19 22:07:11 UTC 2016

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:57:45PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > There it simply doesn't clean up requires.txt.
> 
> Do you think it's safe and sane enough to just ignore all the python egg
> foo and empty the file during the build in d/rules or something on that
> line?
> I'm afraid I know nothing about distutils/setuptools and in general
> stuff to generate a python package for distribution, so I can't really
> judge on this...

I'm not yet sure what a good solution for this is, as I'm also not
really experienced with setuptools.
It might be nice for non-distribution installations, but it messes a bit
more with everything than I like (see also the auto-generated diffoscope
script...).
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