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On 2020-10-15 08:39:15 -0500 (-0500), Matthew Thode wrote:
> On 20-10-15 12:56:34, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2020-10-15 13:22:36 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > [...]
> > > IMO, this is a problem in downstream distributions, not in
> > > OpenStack (unless this influences pip3).
> > > 
> > > In Debian, I did hard-wire an explicit build-dependency on
> > > python3-setuptools on each and every package. I don't understand
> > > why you haven't done the same thing.
> > [...]
> > 
> > And even this isn't completely necessary... it's entirely possible
> > for projects to only use PBR and setuptools for creating packages,
> > but use other Python stdlib methods (e.g., importlib in Python 3.8)
> > to access version information and related package metadata during
> > runtime.
> 
> For a large majority of packages, setuptools is required because they
> have entry-points.  This mostly includes all the clients, but also hits
> some oslo packages as well.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#entry-points

Maybe time to start thinking about a cycle goal around that?
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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