Lintian tag: package-installs-python-egg

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Python eggs should not be installed, since the Debian package is supposed
to do the required steps for installing the Python code.

The egg may contain pre-compiled Python bytecode or shared libraries.

Please refer to Documentation (Section 3.7) in the Debian Python Policy
0.12.0.0 documentation for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: languages/python

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
python3.12 3.12.7-1 libpython3.12-testsuite/3.12.7-1 overridden package-installs-python-egg [usr/lib/python3.12/test/test_importlib/data/example-21.12-py3.6.egg] 1
python3.13 3.13.0~rc3-1 libpython3.13-testsuite/3.13.0~rc3-1 overridden package-installs-python-egg [usr/lib/python3.13/test/test_importlib/metadata/data/example-21.12-py3.6.egg] 1
rust-python-pkginfo 0.6.3-1 librust-python-pkginfo-dev/0.6.3-1 error package-installs-python-egg [usr/share/cargo/registry/python-pkginfo-0.6.3/tests/fixtures/build-0.4.0-py3.9.egg] 9