Multiple top-level packages discovered in a flat-layout (Debian)

[fabiomt]

Hi,

During a rebuild of the x-tile package on Debian the following error occurred:

>  debian/rules clean
> dh clean --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> I: pybuild base:310: python3.11 setup.py clean 
> error: Multiple top-level packages discovered in a flat-layout: ['linux', 'glade', 'locale', 'modules'].
> 
> To avoid accidental inclusion of unwanted files or directories,
> setuptools will not proceed with this build.
> 
> If you are trying to create a single distribution with multiple packages
> on purpose, you should not rely on automatic discovery.
> Instead, consider the following options:
> 
> 1. set up custom discovery (`find` directive with `include` or `exclude`)
> 2. use a `src-layout`
> 3. explicitly set `py_modules` or `packages` with a list of names
> 
> To find more information, look for "package discovery" on setuptools docs.
> E: pybuild pybuild:395: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.11 setup.py clean 
> dh_auto_clean: error: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.11 returned exit code 13
> make: *** [debian/rules:4: clean] Error 25

To fix it I applied the following patch:

--- x-tile.orig/setup.py
+++ x-tile/setup.py
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ setup(
     author_email = "giuspen@gmail.com & codifies@gmail.com",
     url = "http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/",
     license = "GPL",
+    packages=[],
     data_files = [
                   ("share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps", ["glade/x-tile.svg"] ),
                   ("share/x-tile/glade", glob.glob("glade/*.*") ),

[fabiomt]

Somehow didn't see this was already fixed in: https://github.com/giuspen/x-tile/issues/20

Sorry

[giuspen]

No worries @fabiomt I should release a new package version so there is no confusion