#1149459 plotpy: FTBFS: ERROR Backend 'setuptools.build_meta' is not available.

Package:
src:plotpy
Source:
src:plotpy
Submitter:
Santiago Vila
Date:
2026-09-30 12:51:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1149459#5
Date:
2026-09-29 23:06:04 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202609/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:plotpy, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'

TIP pass --env-dir and --sdist-extract-dir to keep the build environment and sources, then see https://build.pypa.io/en/stable/how-to/troubleshooting.html#debug-a-failed-build for help debugging a failed build
ERROR Backend 'setuptools.build_meta' is not available.
E: pybuild pybuild:485: build: plugin pyproject failed with: exit code=1: python3.14 -m build --skip-dependency-check --no-isolation --wheel --outdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/cpython3_3.14_plotpy
dh_auto_build: error: pybuild --build -i python{version} -p 3.14 --parallel=1 returned exit code 13
make: *** [debian/rules:6: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
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#1149459#10
Date:
2026-09-30 12:49:26 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
plotpy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1149459@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated plotpy package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:29:08 +0200
Source: plotpy
Architecture: source
Version: 2.8.4-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 1149459
Changes:
 plotpy (2.8.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team Upload
   * Add debian/salsa-ci.yml
   * Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no": it is the default now
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority: tag
   * Drop duplicate dh-python dependency
   * Build-dep on python3-setuptools (Closes: #1149459)
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