[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #1473: zope.interface and pyasn1 dependencies have version 'unknown'

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#1473: zope.interface and pyasn1 dependencies have version 'unknown'
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     Reporter:  davidsarah  |      Owner:  somebody
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  closed
     Priority:  major       |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  packaging   |    Version:  1.8.2
   Resolution:  invalid     |   Keywords:  version zope.interface pyasn1
Launchpad Bug:  531662      |
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Old description:

> In the output of {{{tahoe --version}}} and {{{tahoe --version-and-
> path}}}, the zope.interface and pyasn1 versions are always shown as
> '{{{unknown}}}'. The versions of these dependencies are also not checked
> against the requirement. This is because these modules have no
> {{{__version__}}} property (which should be reported as bugs against
> [https://launchpad.net/zope.interface zope.interface] and
> [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=605751&group_id=93839&func=browse
> pyasn1]).
>
> Note that {{{pkg_resources}}} cannot be relied on to return correct
> version numbers; see [ticket:1258#comment:8].

New description:

 In the output of {{{tahoe --version}}} and {{{tahoe --version-and-path}}},
 the zope.interface and pyasn1 versions are always shown as
 '{{{unknown}}}'. The versions of these dependencies are also not checked
 against the requirement. This is because these modules have no
 {{{__version__}}} property (which should be reported as bugs against
 [https://launchpad.net/zope.interface zope.interface] and
 [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=605751&group_id=93839&func=browse
 pyasn1]).

 Note that {{{pkg_resources}}} cannot be relied on to return correct
 version numbers; see [ticket:1258#comment:8].

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Comment (by daira):

 The bug in pyasn1 is fixed.

 The one in zope.interface was wontfixed by an obstinate maintainer who
 claimed that `pkg_resources` could be used instead, even though that
 sometimes gives the wrong version number (and the maintainer was told that
 by me and Glyph in so many words) :-(

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