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[core-updates-frozen] sitecustomize.py does not honor .pth files

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#52269: closed (Re: bug#52269: [core-updates-frozen]
 sitecustomize.py does not honor .pth files)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:03:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#52269: [core-updates-frozen] sitecustomize.py does not honor .pth files

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
Cc: 52269-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52269: [core-updates-frozen] sitecustomize.py does not
 honor .pth files
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:02:04 -0500

Hi,

I've cherry-picked this commit to the version-1.4.0 branch.  I'll amass
some fixes there and then later have Cuirass build it.

Closing.

Thanks for the review!

Maxim

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [core-updates-frozen] Some Python packages relying on .pth are broken
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:59:53 -0500

Hello Guix,

This was already something Harmut noted during their review of the
site.py loader (that it should honor .pth files), but at the time I
wasn't aware of a Python package that still made use of that mechanism
and thought it was legacy.

To my dismay it seems to be used by the tool 'pdbpp', which is an
improved pdb (debugger) for Python; using core-updates-frozen I noticed
that it was no longer in use; looking at its installed files I see:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
pdbpp_hijack_pdb.pth
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So I'm guessing that because the new loader doesn't handle .pth files
its "hijacking" technique doesn't work.

Unfortunately touching this site.py file would causes a massive rebuild
(of the whole Python world).  Hopefully this use of .pth is a rare
occurrence and can be worked around.

Thanks,

Maxim

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