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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Change python-build-system (fixes bug 20765)
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 22:46:13 -0400
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On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 10:27:54PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> > this is a patch-series fixing bug 20765.
> > 
> > Bug 20765 is about problems caused by python packages being installed as
> > "zipped eggs" (basically these are zip-files).
> 
> Thanks for taking this on!
> 
> I will read it more thoroughly tomorrow.
> 
> I will test a few packages and, if they work, I plan to create a
> python-build-system job on Hydra and try building it the entire package
> tree (assuming that Hydra has the capacity).

I underestimated the impact of this change. Just looking at libxcb,
which depends on python-minimal-wrapper, I see that ~2500 packages will
be rebuilt. So, depending on the status of core-updates, this should
wait until after core-updates is mostly built.