[Bug 531648] Review Request: python3-setuptools - Easily build and distribute Python 3 packages

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--- Comment #5 from Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org>  2009-10-29 15:07:57 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> The actual dependency on python3-devel happens in the setuptools libraries, not
> in these trivial scripts, so the python3-setuptools package is the one that
> should depend on python3-devel package.  This is a simple matter of incorrect
> dependencies in the specfile, and the packaging guidelines make it pretty clear
> that python3-setuptools needs to depend on python3-devel (or the files it
> depends on need to move from python3-devel to python3).  

Hmm.  It turns out that the dependency is actually in distutils, which is part
of the python3 package.  I'll make a comment on this over on the python3
packaging page and open a separate bug report for python2.  Once these are
fixed, setuptools packaging can be made sane. :)

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