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On 01/14/2016 02:25 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote:
During a Package Review I was doing on a python package, Kevin
Kofler joined the conversation to point out that was wrong to
suggest that the python packages should remove the egg-info
provided by upstream. I was a little surprised by this so I
started to look around and I found a wiki page
(
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python_Eggs) confirming
that this is an old policy that is now deprecated.
Believing not to be the only packager that is used to delete the
upstream egg-info folder, I scanned Fedora RPM specs and this is
what I found: 459 packages do it.
Since in the wiki page it's specified that this behavior is
deprecated, I think all packagers having packages that delete
egg-info files should improve their packages.
This is the complete list of packages doing so.
Some (many?) of these packages only remove egg-info during %setup to
ensure that it gets regenerated by the %build phase (this is
particularly important for packages that may patch the requirements
from upstream to be more flexible with versions).
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