[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/python-xmodem: new package

Marcin Niestrój m.niestroj at grinn-global.com
Sat May 2 10:39:33 UTC 2020


Hi Asaf,

Asaf Kahlon <asafka7 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:28 PM Marcin Niestrój
> <m.niestroj at grinn-global.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All!
>>
>> The problem with this package is that there is no license file when we
>> download from pypi. But there is one on github. Question is: what should
>> we do about it?
>
> We already have some python packages which don't include the license
> on the tarball, although it exists in the repo.
> Most of the times, it's because the maintainer of the package didn't add
> the license file in MANIFEST.in (which seems to be your case too).
> On those cases, PKG-INFO is mostly used, but it's not the preferred
> solution, so I suggest to send a PR for adding the license to
> MANIFEST.in
> You can see an example from snmpclitools here:
> https://github.com/etingof/snmpclitools/commit/d93597050f7e4708ce875cc47274c39a9e63da11

Thanks for hints! If it takes reasonable time to merge, then I will post
v2 with LICENSE. If not, then I will try PKG-INFO for the time before
next package release.

-- 
Regards,
Marcin Niestrój



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