[arch-general] python-distribute is deprecated and merged back into setuptools.

[Øyvind Heggstad]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:54:47 +0700
Shani Hadiyanto Pribadi <shanipribadi at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> python-distribute is merged back into setuptools and deprecated.
> [1]
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html
> [2] http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/merge.html
> 
> I'm not sure where to report this since the bug report is not for out
> of date package.
> 
> Here is the new PKGBUILD for python-setuptools-0.9.8:
> [3] https://gist.github.com/shanipribadi/6210208
> 
> Altough setuptools 1.0 will be out very soon (mercurial repo is
> already at 1.0b1, pypi is still at 0.9.8)
> 
> Thank you.

I already filed a feature request for it. Nothing is happening to it
though:  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36193

I was going to clean up the mess in aur, but decided to wait for
whatever response there will be to the feature request first.