Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xlrd.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I don't know python packaging but when I look at other packages it
>>> seems that these are usually used as “inputs” not
>>> “native-inputs”.
>>
>> Nose is used for the tests only and setuptools is used at build time, so
>> I think it’s fine like this.
>
> Is this a general statement or something specific to this package? If
> this is general it seems to be a good idea to make a big commit that
> fixes all the python packages which use these dependencies as normal
> inputs?  WDYT?

I can’t say if this is true for all Python packages, but for those that
I have packaged I have always done it this way without any problems.

~~ Ricardo