ufw

Uses deprecated distutils

Bug #1962732 reported by Ross Burton
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Bug Description

distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be *removed* in 3.12:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated

The easiest port is to setuptools, but the entirely custom install function makes the migration not as trivial as simply changing the import from distutils to setuptools.

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lp://staging/~tgamblin/ufw/distutils-to-setuptools
Jamie Strandboge: Pending requested
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setup.py (+2/-2)
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thanks for the report! :)

Changed in ufw:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Ross Burton (ross) wrote :

A related bug: wheels built by ufw don't work, as you have a custom install command.

You can test this by 'setup.py bdist_wheel' and then 'pip install ufw.wheel'. Almost everything is installed into the wrong places.

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Ross Burton (ross) wrote :

Update: I've been talking to the Python Packaging Authority and they basically say that if you want to install files outside of a Python module or the limited files they support then use a non-Python build system like autotools/Meson/etc.

"Given that setup.py install is deprecated and will not be un-deprecated, developers of Python software that performs Unixy integration are advised to migrate to a non-python build system."

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

The current setup.py is ancient. I need to take a hard look at it and survey my options. My priorities are to have a similar if not equivalent install experience (quite a few distros package ufw) while also doing the right thing wrt Debian python packaging. Any other niceties for development I can just change as needed. Thanks for the additional info.

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Ross Burton (ross) wrote (last edit ): Re: [Bug 1962732] Re: Uses deprecated distutils

Personally I’d say just port to Meson. It installs python nicely and works well with distribution tooling.

In the immediate short-term, Trevor's patch at least silences warnings for now.

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