[Ubuntu] Cartopy version 0.0.0 bug

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 2/7/22 20:34, Bennett Kanuka wrote:
> Hi there,  I believe there is a bug in how python3-cartopy is being built.
> The .egg directory and PKG-INFO is reporting version 0.0.0 . This becomes
> an issue because pip also sees cartopy 0.0.0 is installed and often tries
> to upgrade it (for obvious reasons).  This can be tested by running `pip
> list` after installing python3-cartopy from the repo.

Cartopy doesn't specify a version in their setup() call. They use 
setuptools_scm to get the version from their git repo which is 
incompatible with Debian packaging in git.

Fixed with:

 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/python-cartopy/-/commit/8980cbfe4886eae31fd85aed94b12b563c312800

Kind Regards,

Bas

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