Re: Rayforge packaging effort – request for guidance and team maintenance

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Thank Alexandre,

This is very useful. I will drop the packaging of setuptools-git-versionin=
g and replace the dependency by a patch like the ones you shared.

Cheers

Mike


Michele Cane, PhD

On Friday, 29 May 2026 at 23:22, Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmai=
l.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> =


> Nobody answered yet, so I'll answer on the only one package I know
> about: setuptools-git-versioning
> =


> I've been annoyed several times by package who don't return version
> info through importlib.metadata;
> enough to check the problem more deeply and fix what I could  (by
> adding python3-setuptools-scm most of the time)
> =


> The cases boil down to this:
>      apt-file search --filter-suites unstable,experimental --
> '-0.0.0.' | grep -e egg-info -e dist-info | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u >
> liste
> =


> Many of those will document an optional dependency on
> setuptools-git-versioning and do fine without.
> =


> Some are patched out, see
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=3Dsetuptools-git-versioning&liter=
al=3D1
> - toolz
> - the patch is needed becaue upstream depends on
> setuptools-git-versioning, which is not available in Debian.
>      https://sources.debian.org/src/python-logistro/2.0.1+dfsg1-2/tests/=
test_version.py?hl=3D13#L13
> =


> So it seems a nice addition; but I'm not sure it would so much useful
> as-is for regular packages.
> =


> We would most likely need glue similar to the "export
> SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION"
> thing done by dh-python
> =


> Greetings
> =


> Alexandre
> =


> PS: theres is also this lintian request worth checking:
>        https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D1034588
> =


> =


> Le ven. 29 mai 2026 =C3=A0 15:03, Michele Cane <[email protected]> =
a =C3=A9crit :
> > setuptools-git-versioning: https://salsa.debian.org/heiserhorn/setupto=
ols-git-versioning
> >
> > The following packages have been identified as direct or indirect depe=
ndencies of Rayforge (the list may not yet be exhaustive):
> > Python:
> > setuptools-git-versioning
> =


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