Re: Recent lang/python* and textproc/py-cElementTree failure

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 07:39:48PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 03:10:26AM +0900, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
> > In a very recent pkgsrc tree, I have gotten the following error
> > in the install stage. I am using lang/python39-3.9.9nb2.
> > 
> > textproc/py-cElementTree wants to install egg files, however
> > it has bogus UNKNOWN name, version number and so on..
> 
> I can't reproduce this in an empty sandbox.
> I see the problem when I do 'pkg_add py39-setuptools'.
> 
> So a workaround is to pkg_delete py39-setuptools.
> 
> This module has its own files/setup.py. I guess this needs to be
> fixed, but I don't know how yet.

The same issue appears also with py-curses and py-expat.

I still think we should stop splitting up python just because of the
expat and curses dependencies.

I think one possible fix is to convert our manual setup.py files for
these modules to setuptools, but I'm not motivated to do this.
 Thomas