Re: dealing with packages that put * in wheels

[Niclas Rosenvik <nros%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:07:01 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> matrix-synapse has some patches, to work around upstream bugs.  This
> is of course normal.
> 
> The build installs foo.orig, resulting in a PLIST error that foo.orig
> is in DESTDIR.  But the error is the installed file not the PLIST.
> Removing them from the source  directory in pre-build: avoids this,
> but removing in pre-install: does not.
> 
> Generally, one doesn't want to remove these early so that a
> 
>   make
>   pkgvi
>   make
>   mkpatches
> 
> session will do the right thing.
> 
> I am pretty sure the issue is that these end up in .whl at build time,
> and install just installs the wheel.
> 
> Is it unusually buggy of python programs to put *.orig in wheels?
> 
> Do we have a preferred way to deal with this?

You can try to patch the pyproject.toml file, it has an "exclude =" part
under [tool.poetry] adding something like:
{ path = "**/*.orig", format = "wheel"}
to the exclude list might work.
see: https://python-poetry.org/docs/pyproject/#include-and-exclude