6.12.0 package includes tests

[Tecuya]

The 6.12.0 release is installing a tests package containing the tests for pip-tools.

This means any project that has pip-tools installed will have its own tests modules eclipsed by pip-tools' tests. This broke our CI build when I upgraded all the deps in a project today, chased it down to pip-tools.

Demonstration:

root@docker-fi:~# pip install pip-tools==6.11.0
[...snip...]
Successfully installed pip-tools-6.11.0
root@docker-fi:~# ls /usr/local/lib/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tests
ls: cannot access '/usr/local/lib/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tests': No such file or directory
root@docker-fi:~# pip install pip-tools==6.12.0
[...snip...]
Successfully installed pip-tools-6.12.0
root@docker-fi:~# ls /usr/local/lib/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tests
__init__.py  conftest.py   test_cache.py	test_cli_sync.py  test_fake_index.py  test_minimal_upgrade.py	test_repository_pypi.py  test_subprocess_utils.py  test_top_level_editable.py  test_writer.py
__pycache__  constants.py  test_cli_compile.py	test_data	  test_logging.py     test_repository_local.py	test_resolver.py	 test_sync.py		   test_utils.py	       utils.py
root@docker-fi:~# 

[webknjaz]

Just to clarify the expectations:

1. the sdist must bundle tests
2. the wheel should avoid including them

P.S. I haven't checked but it might be related to the updates in setuptools. Whoever ends up debugging this could try to verify this by running PIP_CONSTRAINT=build-constraints.txt python -m build with various setuptools versions pinned in build-constraints.txt and using wheel unpack to inspect the contents.
Checking the build log output can also shed some light on the problem.

[tnlogy]

I also have some issues with this, now I cannot import my local package from tests.utils import ... since pip-tools tests directory have a utils.py file in it.

[AndydeCleyre]

The current wheel is also polluting site-packages with docs and examples.

[q0w]

But the default autodiscovery provided by setuptools does not work for pip-tools (neither src layout nor flat layout), so maybe provide explicity packages for setuptools.packages.find or exclude explicitly tests and other packages

[atugushev]

The fix is released as part of pip-tools v6.12.1.