pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'dirsync' distribution was not found and is required by wheel2deb

[smijolovic]

Running the command: wheel2deb --map attrs=attr

Is producing the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/wheel2deb", line 6, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3254, in
def _initialize_master_working_set():
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3237, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3266, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 584, in _build_master
ws.require(requires)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 901, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 787, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'dirsync' distribution was not found and is required by wheel2deb

[smijolovic]

Figured this out. Had to build dirsync from source, because we don't use pip to install packages - we use deb packaging.

Build debian package for dirsync here: https://github.com/tkhyn/dirsync

Might be something to include in the README file about the dependency on dirsync.