Some files specified in MANIFEST.in generate a "not recognized" warning message
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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python-distutils-extra |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Even though I've marked a file to be included by adding a line to MANIFEST.in, it still shows up in the "WARNING: the following files are not recognized by DistUtilsExtra.
Example:
MANIFEST.in file:
include AUTHORS
include CHANGELOG
include COPYING
include README
include README.PACKAGING
include data/ui/*
include doc/*
include po/*
include MANIFEST.in
include bin/*
Error message:
WARNING: the following files are not recognized by DistUtilsExtra.
CHANGELOG
dist/
dist/
doc/nautilus-
extra/design.py
extra/
po/nautilus-
In this example, the files CHANGELOG, doc/nautilus-
The resulting tarball is correct, but I would think that those 3 files should not show up in the warning section.
FYI: Using python-
Bug 719438 also partly reports the same problem, "I should add that almost all of these files are actually listed in our MANIFEST.in". However, the focus of that other bug report is different (generation of "ERROR: Python module XXXXXX not found"), so I'd think this is not a duplicate.