FS#69852 - [python-appdirs] should not have python-setuptools as a makedependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 09:39 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 02 September 2023, 13:27 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
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Details

First of all, the python-appdirs builds just fine if python-setuptools are not installed. But more importantly, python-setuptools do in fact have python-appdirs as a (regular) dependency. This bug causes a depndency cycle that confused me when I was trying to build them for an older version of Python with no apparent point where to start. The correct order is appdirs first, setuptools second.
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Saturday, 02 September 2023, 13:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  setup.py still references setuptools so it's still a makedependency.
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 09:43 GMT
However, I am no sure if the build result of python-appdirs is perhaps somewhat different if python-setuptools aren't installed. This is a piece of code in setup.py of python-appdirs:

```
# appdirs is a dependency of setuptools, so allow installing without it.
try:
from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
from distutils.core import setup
```
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 09:47 GMT
It will probably fail to run the tests in the check() function if setuptools aren't installed. So it would still make sense to make setuptools a recommended dependency or something.
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 09:55 GMT
The same bug is for the other two direct dependencies python-packaging, python-ordered-set and the indirect dependency python-pyparsing
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 10:03 GMT
To be more precise with the above, python-packaging can be built even without any of python-setuptools or python-pyparsing installed. So python-pyparsing should probably be only a recommended dependency of python-packaging?
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 10:05 GMT
or rather make python-setuptools and (python-pyparsing ?) a checkdependency rather than a recommended dependency. (sorry for spamming a bit, I am writing here as I'm digging deeper into the problem)
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 10:08 GMT
also python-packaging does not truly depend on python-six
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 10:31 GMT
Sadly, this kind of bug seems to occur even upstream with for example python-pyparsing which actually is necessary to build python-setuptools (but not to build python-packaging). I made an upstream bug report, but I am not sure, what is the best solution for Arch here.
Comment by Jáchym Barvínek (kamahl) - Tuesday, 02 March 2021, 11:02 GMT
Relevant upstream bugs so far:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2550

https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/issues/270

https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/ordered-set/issues/76
Comment by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Tuesday, 08 August 2023, 19:11 GMT
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