no version number in the .egg-info filename

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Binary package hint: python-setuptools

The .egg-info file in python-setuptools is named:

/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info

Most .egg-info files are named something with their version number in it, such as:

/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/GnuPGInterface-0.3.2.egg-info
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/cups-1.0.egg-info
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/mercurial-1.1.2.egg-info
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/python_debian-0.1.12ubuntu2.egg-info
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyusb-0.4.1.egg-info

I have written some code for the stdeb tool (http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/tree/master ) which parses the filenames in search of the version numbers, and this code works for all packages that I have tried except for setuptools. Also I know that a new version of distutils is being developed, and I think there was some discussion about the possibility that it could use stat to learn the version numbers of multiple packages at once by inspecting the filenames of their .egg-infos. I don't know if that is the plan for the new distutils, but having all Ubuntu packages be uniform in this way seems like it wouldn't hurt and might help. If python-setuptools needs to have a versionless .egg-info filename for some reason, then perhaps we could add a symlink from setuptools-0.6c9.egg-info to setuptools.egg-info?

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

Hey folks, I saw today that this bug is blocking me from using stdeb (http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/tree/master ) to automatically generate a .dsc for my pycryptopp project on Ubuntu Jaunty. Why is the setuptools .egg-info file different from what the normal distutils or setuptools build of a Python package would produce? How hard is it to change it to be "setuptools-0.6c9.egg-info" instead? Or, if there's some reason not to do that, then how about adding a symlink?

Thanks!

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

Interestingly the new packaging of python-setuptools in Ubuntu Lucid adds a .egg-info for Distribute with a working version number but leaves the .egg-info for setuptools with no version number:

$ dpkg --listfiles python-setuptools | grep egg-info$
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.10.egg-info
/usr/share/pyshared/distribute-0.6.10.egg-info
/usr/share/pyshared/setuptools.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info

It is too bad that we didn't add in the setuptools version number when we had the chance! But I guess it is a bit late in the Lucid release cycle to change it now. ;-)