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BUG: dmenu-extended-git-r358.16bde81-2 won't build from the AUR

See original GitHub issue

Hello there 👋 😋

i’m not sure the PKGBUILD of the application on the AUR is maintained from here, but we’ll see 😉

The bug

i tried to update dmenu-extended from last version with paru -S dmenu-extended on ArchLinux and i get the following error:

==> Starting build()...
python: can't open file '/home/ants/.cache/paru/clone/dmenu-extended-git/src/dmenu-extended/setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'dmenu-extended-git-r358.16bde81-2':
error: packages failed to build: dmenu-extended-git-r358.16bde81-2

A possible fix?

the previous PKGBUILD contains

build() {
  cd "$_pkgname"
  python setup.py build
}

package() {
  cd "$_pkgname"
  python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir/" --optimize=1 --skip-build
  install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
}

but the setup.py script does not exist anymore.

i’m not sure where it got replaced by setup.sh nor how to rewrite the PKGBUILD exactly but i think that might be the key 😏

anyways, cheers 👋 😋