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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

trunk requires bzr to be installed, release tarballs do not.
Specifically, setup.py looks for a PKG-INFO file from which to derive
version information.

Is this causing a genuine problem?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710736

Title:
  setup.py requires bzr to be installed

Status in testtools:
  New

Bug description:
  setup.py requires bzrlib to be installed for my python. Even though
  there is not .bzr/ control directory

  C:\work\Python\testtools\testtools>setup.py bdist_wininst -d.
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\testtools\setup.py", line 63, in <module>
      version=get_version(),
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\testtools\setup.py", line 41, in get_version
      revno = get_revno()
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\testtools\setup.py", line 12, in get_revno
      import bzrlib.workingtree
  ImportError: No module named bzrlib.workingtree

  C:\work\Python\testtools\testtools>bzr export ../exported-tree

  
  C:\work\Python\testtools\exported-tree>setup.py bdist_wininst -d.
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\exported-tree\setup.py", line 63, in <module>
      version=get_version(),
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\exported-tree\setup.py", line 41, in get_version
      revno = get_revno()
    File "C:\work\Python\testtools\exported-tree\setup.py", line 12, in get_revno
      import bzrlib.workingtree
  ImportError: No module named bzrlib.workingtree