Bug 355645 – distutils.eclass unnecessarily installs file `MANIFEST.in' into doc directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dean Matzkov 2011-02-20 01:39:09 UTC]

It doesn't look like the file `MANIFEST.in' was supposed to be installed.

$ bzcat /usr/share/doc/pybugz-0.9.0_rc2/MANIFEST.in.bz2
   include LICENSE
   include contrib/*

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2011-02-20 11:51:58 UTC]

MANIFEST.in should not have been in the tarball to begin with. This has
been fixed upstream and will not be there for the next release.

[Comment 2 William Hubbs 2011-02-21 21:16:28 UTC]

I am reopening this, because after looking into it further, I found out that distutils.eclass installs this file by default if it exists in a tarball.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2011-02-21 21:23:37 UTC]

This bug was originally filed against www-client/pybugz-0.9.0-rc2 because it installed MANIFEST.in in its doc directory.

I initially removed that file from the generated tarball upstream. However, I have since discovered that this file is automatically installed by distutils.eclass, and I tend to agree with the original description of this bug.

This file is used in the generation of the tarball for a distutils package, but I can't think of a good reason to install it in the documentation for the package.

[Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2011-03-25 22:15:13 UTC]

I suggest to also disable installation of PKG-INFO.

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2011-04-12 23:34:23 UTC]

distutils_src_install() no longer installs MANIFEST* and PKG-INFO.