pyproject include = ["LICENSE", "CONTRIBUTING.rst"...]

[cpina]

This is a question.

In the pyproject.toml there is:

include = [
    "LICENSE",
    "CONTRIBUTING.rst",
    "CHANGELOG.rst",
    "scripts/ringcli.py"
]

I haven't done much Python packaging. But for other packages that I've done in Debian: this was never there, and because it's there I need to fix it in the Debian package (else the files go to an unexpected place).

If I install python-ring-doorbell with pip I see:

carles@pinux:~/p$ find . -iname "contributing.rst"
./venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/CONTRIBUTING.rst
carles@pinux:~/p$ 

Which does not seem the correct place for CONTRIBUTING.rst (same for the other files).

I suggest to delete the include (I can do a quick PR if needed) to avoid installing those files in site-packages/ (this is using pip), besides making Debian package more standard. Of course, unless there is a good reason to have the include = there (which I might have missed, only seeing what's happening in other packages).

Also, I don't know the best way to include the files in the pip (I can have a look at other packages...) or if they should be in a subdirectory.

Thanks for considering it!

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