909872 – app-emulation/cloud-init: needs to use PEP517 build (DistutilsNonPEP517Build)

Bug 909872 - app-emulation/cloud-init: needs to use PEP517 build (DistutilsNonPEP517Build)

Summary: app-emulation/cloud-init: needs to use PEP517 build (DistutilsNonPEP517Build)

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire )

URL:	https://github.com/canonical/cloud-in...
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Blocks:	pep517-porting
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Reported:	2023-07-08 06:45 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2024-03-08 21:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Michał Górny archtester

2023-07-08 06:45:17 UTC

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

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2023-07-08 20:40:52 UTC

[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.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2024-03-06 15:30:19 UTC

Final ping.  Please note that we will not hesitate to last rite low profile packages over this.

Comment 3 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) archtester

2024-03-08 04:16:08 UTC

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3986 still isn't cared about upstream it seems

Comment 4 bpholman5 2024-03-08 21:43:46 UTC

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