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TarsolyGer

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From: Korea

Registered: 2019-05-19

Posts: 73

Missing dependency for python-tomli?

Hi,

I've ran into an interesting issue, and was considering submitting a bug report, but first I would like to consult the excellent forum community about the issue.

I'm a great fan of Spyder as a Python IDE and I'm using it for my hobby projects (I'm not a Python guru by any means). I have installed the spyder package from the official repository, and I have the python-spyder-kernels package installed via a custom PKGBUILD so it builds the newest version available from Upstream (the version in the repositories is broken).
Spyder has been working until the system update I did about 24 hours ago, when it broke. It is still broken if I update my system now. However, the error is easy to remedy. When I run Spyder from the  command line, the last line of the Traceback tells me this:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'flit-core<4,>=3.2.0' distribution was not found and is required by tomli

So, after googling a little I found that there exists a package in Arch Linux called python-flit-core, and if I install it, Spyder works again. My suspicion is, that the package python-tomli should have python-flit-core as a dependency. Is this something I should report as a bug? Or am I getting something wrong here?

Thank you for the help!

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brandonlotero

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Registered: 2021-07-22

Posts: 6

Re: Missing dependency for python-tomli?

Greetings!
You are totally right in my opinion, that dependency should be enabled by default. Report it and the maintainers will know what to do.

Have a good day!