This package still uses the legacy eclass code paths. These paths are deprecated and pose a significant maintenance cost. Please update the package to use PEP517 build mode. For more information, please see the Python Guide, particularly; https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/migration.html#migrating-to-pep-517-builds
[Adding this comment en-masse, sorry for the noise, but it's important.) 1. Please take particular care to check file diffs before/after, possibly using `iwdevtools`. Keep a particular eye out for e.g. config files now missing from /etc and instead being in /usr/lib/python*/site-packages, etc. 2. Please make sure to do the migration in a new revision in ~arch, partly because of 1.
Final ping. Please note that we will not hesitate to last rite low profile packages over this.
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3986 still isn't cared about upstream it seems
Thanks for the updated comment. Upstream is actively working on PEP517 support for multiple distributions at the moment[1]. Distutils currently installs non-python code to custom path locations in cloud-init's packaging - some additional packaging changes will be required in cloud-init to add PEP517 support. https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/5027
ci has reproduced this issue with version 24.2 - Updating summary.
The plan is to get this fixed before the 24.3 release. See the schedule[1] for release dates. [1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/2024-cloud-init-release-schedule/41679
ci has reproduced this issue with version 24.2-r1 - Updating summary.
ci has reproduced this issue with version 24.4 - Updating summary.
ci has reproduced this issue with version 24.4-r3 - Updating summary.
Absolutely final ping before I really start last riting stuff.
Upstream still doesn't seem to care.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e41c5c3ca4cb468f2fa85f2c48f08f1541b1d32f commit e41c5c3ca4cb468f2fa85f2c48f08f1541b1d32f Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-03-31 17:04:31 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-03-31 17:05:45 +0000 app-emulation/cloud-init: port to python-single-r1 The package isn't suitable for PEP517, as it installs data files and it simply happens to be written in Python, rather than intending to be imported and so on. Unfortunately, for the remaining PEP517 holdouts, there's little pressure upstream for them to port to a proper build system yet, as while setuptools deprecated the `setup.py` entrypoint some time ago, there's no removal in sight yet, so the only pressing side is on Gentoo's where we want to cleanup distutils-r1's support for that. It was arguably a mistake to really have these packages use distutils-r1 in the first place. The obvious workaround for now is to invoke setup.py manually w/ python-single-r1, and punt the question until setuptools removal of the entrypoint looks closer (at which time, other distros will be putting pressure on upstreams too). Of course, if at the time of such a setuptools change, the package is still not fixed, then we'd have to remove it. (The same issues apply to bug #922160 which isn't fixed by this, but hopefully won't be an actual problem until that aforementioned removal in setuptools itself of the other bits.) Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/922160 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/850964 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/909872 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/952196 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-emulation/cloud-init/cloud-init-24.4-r4.ebuild | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++ app-emulation/cloud-init/cloud-init-9999.ebuild | 91 +++++++++------ 2 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b373fd5bd3f660997238614eb2ccff1abce54da8 commit b373fd5bd3f660997238614eb2ccff1abce54da8 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-04-09 13:43:39 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-04-09 13:46:55 +0000 app-emulation/cloud-init: drop 24.4-r3 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/909872 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/952969 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-emulation/cloud-init/cloud-init-24.4-r3.ebuild | 107 --------------------- 1 file changed, 107 deletions(-)
