python packaging, egg-info file vs. directory

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently encountered a problem with the python-demjson rpm I maintain:
> The demjson package does not use setuptools, so, in accordance with
> the python packaging guidelines, I used the trick of preloading
> setuptools prior to executing setup.py, for F7 and F8 only. This
> produces an egg-info directory, fine.
> 
> Now, for F9, egg-info is generated automatically, but it turns out
> that this produces an egg-info file instead of an directory. This in
> turn causes problems when upgrading from F8 to F9, because rpm can't
> replace a dir with a file.
> 
> Any advices on how to solve this?
> 

Do you have a reason to need eggs on F7 and F8?

If not, then the answer is simply to not provide eggs on F7 and F8. 
Note: If you've already pushed out packages for F7 and F8 you'll need to 
wait until the next upstream release to make this change.

-Toshio

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