Error running check-manifest

[jayvdb]

> python3 -m check_manifest -u
['/usr/bin/python3', 'setup.py', 'sdist', '-d', '/tmp/check-manifest-6wigkwia-sdist'] failed (status 1):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 33, in <module>
    Package.setup()
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/setup_boilerplate.py", line 303, in setup
    cls.prepare()
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/setup_boilerplate.py", line 290, in prepare
    cls.version = find_version(cls.name)
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/setup_boilerplate.py", line 57, in find_version
    version_module_vars = runpy.run_path(version_module_path)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 263, in run_path
    pkg_name=pkg_name, script_name=fname)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 96, in _run_module_code
    mod_name, mod_spec, pkg_name, script_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "version_query/_version.py", line 5, in <module>
    VERSION = predict_version_str()
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query/query.py", line 75, in predict_version_str
    return predict_caller(2).to_str()
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query/query.py", line 71, in predict_caller
    return predict_folder(here, True)
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query/query.py", line 65, in predict_folder
    return query_folder(path, search_parent_directories=search_parent_directories)
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query/query.py", line 37, in query_folder
    return query_package_folder(path, search_parent_directories=search_parent_directories)
  File "/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query/py_query.py", line 42, in query_package_folder
    raise ValueError(paths, metadata_json_paths, pkg_info_paths)
ValueError: ([PosixPath('/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources/version_query'), PosixPath('/tmp/check-manifest-ar9ccg4n-sources'), PosixPath('/tmp'), PosixPath('/')], [], [])

[mbdevpl]

Where does that "check_manifest" come from? On my system there's no such module.

[jayvdb]

It comes from https://pypi.org/project/check-manifest/

[mbdevpl]

I see. I never used this package.

It's unclear to me whether this means that the check-manifest package should be fixed, or my package should be fixed? And what should be the correct behaviour/output?

[mbdevpl]

Have you read about limitations of version-query https://github.com/mbdevpl/version-query#limitations and are you sure if check-manifest doesn't violate the rules described there?

[jayvdb]

It is a tool which fixes the MANIFEST.in in a project repository, by executing setup.py.

I am running it inside the git repository - that is mandatory for check-manifest to do its job.

[mbdevpl]

I see. Well, the errors seem to be originating from /tmp directory... My guess is that check-manifest is copying the files of the project into some temporary directory and trying to build the sdist there, and thus the version-query fails.

[jayvdb]

ok, yea, that could be it. I'll dig into this a bit more.