LAVA Android Test

  1. Bug #988710
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 988710

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

Grar, this was a lot more confusing than I expected (partly because the file that was uploaded to Launchpad for the 2012.04 release is _not_ the same as the file on pypi).

What seems to happen is this:

 1. lp:lava-android-test does not contain a setup.cfg file
 2. when you run python setup.py sdist, this runs egg_info and so creates a SOURCES.txt that does not contain setup.cfg
 3. about the final thing sdist does before making the tarball is write a setup.cfg (this is a setuptools thing)
 4. when you unpack the tarball, debianize it and run dpkg-buildpackage, this runs egg_info, which now updates SOURCES.txt to contain setup.cfg
 5. when you run dpkg-buildpackage again dpkg-source complains because the tree has been modified.

I guess this is a setuptools bug really. But the workaround is easy: commit a setup.cfg file to lp:lava-android-test (most of our projects have one anyway to turn gpg signing on)