[debhelper-devel] Bug#652617: Should clean egg-info directory for Python packages

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 wontfix moreinfo

Hi,

On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:38:15 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
> FYI, theres'a a thread on debian-python at ldo on this very subject:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2012/05/msg00029.html
> 
> * Julien Danjou <acid at debian.org>, 2011-12-19, 10:39:
> >When building Python packages, setup.py often creates a 
> >PACKAGE.egg-info directory which does not exist in upstream tarball. 
> >Therefore debian/rules file is need an override on dh_auto_clean to rm 
> >-rf PACKAGE.egg-info.
> 
> There are simpler ways to overcome this problem than adding an override:
> 
> 1) Add *.egg-info/* to debian/clean. (This requires compat >= 7.)
> 
> 2) Add extend-diff-ignore="^[^/]+\.egg-info/" to debian/source/options.  
> (This requires source format 3.0.)
> 
> >The debian/rules file would not need that if dh_clean would be able to 
> >automatically remove the .egg-info directory! :)
> 
> In the past there were cases of silent breakage due to removing 
> *.egg-info:
> 
> | zope.security (3.8.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
> | .
> |   * Team upload.
> |   * Use debian/source/options to ignore changes in egg-info directory
> |     rather than debian/clean otherwise zcml and txt files are missing.
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Wilk
> 

Based on Jakub Wilk's mail, I am not confident it is something we an fix
in debhelper.  Accordingly, I will now close this bug.

If it is now safe to unconditionally delete egg-info directories (or
there is another way to make debhelper correctly clean the package
automatically), please do not hesitate to let us know.

Thanks,
~Niels



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