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<p>FYI for anyone involved with maintaining Python-related ports in
MacPorts: Over in discuss.python.org, Paul Moore started a thread
on "Enforcing consistent metadata for packages". I am naive about
Python packaging, so most of it goes over my head. But this
comment caught my eye:</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Linux distributors routinely patch sdists
and build their system packages from the resulting wheels. This
patching will, <em>by design</em>, violate the consistency
rules we’re discussing. How do we handle this?</blockquote>
Might some Python-related ports also patch sdists? Might those
ports violate the discussed consistency rules? By design?</p>
<p>If so, maybe those port maintainers might be able to contribute
to the thread by sharing the MacPorts experience. <br>
</p>
<p>For Your Information only. If there is no issue, apologies for
taking up airtime with it.<br>
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. --Jim DeLaHunt, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jdlh@jdlh.com">jdlh@jdlh.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.jdlh.com/">http://blog.jdlh.com/</a> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdlh.com/">http://jdlh.com/</a>)
multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, B.C., Canada</pre>
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