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Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> writes:

>>> I don't know python packaging but when I look at other packages it
>>> seems that these are usually used as =E2=80=9Cinputs=E2=80=9D not
>>> =E2=80=9Cnative-inputs=E2=80=9D.
>>
>> Nose is used for the tests only and setuptools is used at build time, =
so
>> I think it=E2=80=99s fine like this.
>
> Is this a general statement or something specific to this package? If
> this is general it seems to be a good idea to make a big commit that
> fixes all the python packages which use these dependencies as normal
> inputs?  WDYT?

I can=E2=80=99t say if this is true for all Python packages, but for thos=
e that
I have packaged I have always done it this way without any problems.

~~ Ricardo