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[Question] Install from tarball

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Hi, Im install yt-dlp from tarball releases is it ok to ignore this message?

/home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/src/yt-dlp/setup.py:41: UserWarning: Skipping file README.txt since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first
  warnings.warn('Skipping file %s since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first' % fn)
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:484: UserWarning: Normalizing '2021.09.25' to '2021.9.25'
  warnings.warn(tmpl.format(**locals()))

Version

$ yt-dlp -v --version
2021.09.25
$ python -v --version
Python 3.9.7

local/python 3.9.7-1
local/python-pip 20.3.4-1
local/python-setuptools 1:57.4.0-2

I running use Arch Linux rm -Rdf pkg src && makepkg -s

makepkg

$ curl -fsL 'https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2021.09.25/SHA2-256SUMS' | sha256sum -c --ignore-missing 
yt-dlp.tar.gz: OK

$ bsdtar -xzf ../yt-dlp.tar.gz
$ ls; cd yt-dlp
yt-dlp/

$ sed -i 's|etc/bash_completion.d|share/bash-completion/completions|' setup.py
$ sed -i 's|etc/fish/completions|share/fish/vendor_completions.d|' setup.py
$ export PYTHONHASHSEED=0
$ python setup.py build
==> Starting build()...
/home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/src/yt-dlp/setup.py:41: UserWarning: Skipping file README.txt since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first
  warnings.warn('Skipping file %s since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first' % fn)
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:484: UserWarning: Normalizing '2021.09.25' to '2021.9.25'
  warnings.warn(tmpl.format(**locals()))
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/yt_dlp
copying yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py -> build/lib/yt_dlp
...

# package()
$ python setup.py install --root="${pkgdir}/" --optimize=1 --skip-build
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
/home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/src/yt-dlp/setup.py:41: UserWarning: Skipping file README.txt since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first
  warnings.warn('Skipping file %s since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first' % fn)
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:484: UserWarning: Normalizing '2021.09.25' to '2021.9.25'
  warnings.warn(tmpl.format(**locals()))
running install
running install_lib
...
writing byte-compilation script '/tmp/tmp7v19xt_j.py'
/sbin/python /tmp/tmp7v19xt_j.py
removing /tmp/tmp7v19xt_j.py
running install_data
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/bash-completion
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
copying completions/bash/yt-dlp -> /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/zsh
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
copying completions/zsh/_yt-dlp -> /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/fish
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
copying completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish -> /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/doc
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/doc/yt_dlp
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/man
creating /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/man/man1
copying yt-dlp.1 -> /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/share/man/man1
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
creating yt_dlp.egg-info
writing yt_dlp.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to yt_dlp.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to yt_dlp.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing requirements to yt_dlp.egg-info/requires.txt
writing top-level names to yt_dlp.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'yt_dlp.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'yt_dlp.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
adding license file 'LICENSE'
adding license file 'AUTHORS'
writing manifest file 'yt_dlp.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Copying yt_dlp.egg-info to /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp-2021.9.25-py3.9.egg-info
running install_scripts
Installing yt-dlp script to /home/rex/.cache/build/yt-dlp/pkg/yt-dlp/usr/bin