id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
1168	make setup.py more easily patchable by OS packagers	davidsarah	zooko	"Packaging Tahoe-LAFS for OS distributions (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu) currently requires that [source:setup.py] be patched, so that setuptools doesn't try to satisfy Tahoe's dependencies by downloading eggs or by deciding to use a different version of the dependency than would be provided by an OS package.

The attached diff adds an {{{external_dependency_management}}} switch to {{{setup.py}}} to cause this change in behaviour. It doesn't remove the need for a patch, but makes such patches much more likely to apply cleanly."	defect	closed	normal	1.11.0	packaging	1.8β	fixed	install setuptools debian ubuntu