Patch library not maintained anymore

[ShuffleWire]

Bug description

Hello,

From what I'm seeing, https://github.com/techtonik/python-patch is not maintained anymore, is it possible to switch to https://github.com/conan-io/python-patch-ng ?
Detected it because it cause me trouble while installing aqt
on Debian 12, it's already packaged by python3-patch-ng

Expected behavior

Patch-ng should be used

aqt and python version

3.1.21 on python 3.11.2

Operating System

Linux/Unix

Relevant log output

the log about patch not installing correctly

Collecting patch>=1.16 (from aqtinstall)
  Using cached patch-1.16.zip (12 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [36 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-_tobogrf/patch_ec02cd6138d548d48ad403b42fcd3249/setup.py", line 3, in <module>
          setup(
        File "/home/yann/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 145, in setup
          _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/yann/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 313, in __init__
          for ep in metadata.entry_points(group='distutils.setup_keywords'):
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 1040, in entry_points
          return SelectableGroups.load(eps).select(**params)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 476, in load
          ordered = sorted(eps, key=by_group)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 1037, in <genexpr>
          eps = itertools.chain.from_iterable(
                                             ^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/_itertools.py", line 16, in unique_everseen
          k = key(element)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 954, in _normalized_name
          or super()._normalized_name
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 627, in _normalized_name
          return Prepared.normalize(self.name)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 882, in normalize
          return re.sub(r"[-_.]+", "-", name).lower().replace('-', '_')
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/lib/python3.11/re/__init__.py", line 185, in sub
          return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'NoneType'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

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[tsteven4]

perhaps using pathc-ng is a good idea, but I can't reproduce your problem. I tested with bookworm from https://hub.docker.com/_/debian. I tried with wheel installed. I also tried with pip-24.3.1.

root@913242b70303:~# python3 -m venv ~/venv
root@913242b70303:~# . ~/venv/bin/activate
(venv) root@913242b70303:~# pip3 install aqtinstall
Collecting aqtinstall
  Using cached aqtinstall-3.1.21-py3-none-any.whl (59 kB)
Collecting bs4
  Using cached bs4-0.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2 kB)
Collecting defusedxml
  Using cached defusedxml-0.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Collecting humanize
  Using cached humanize-4.11.0-py3-none-any.whl (128 kB)
Collecting patch>=1.16
  Using cached patch-1.16.zip (12 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting py7zr>=0.22.0
  Using cached py7zr-0.22.0-py3-none-any.whl (67 kB)
Collecting requests>=2.31.0
  Using cached requests-2.32.3-py3-none-any.whl (64 kB)
Collecting semantic-version
  Using cached semantic_version-2.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (15 kB)
Collecting texttable
  Using cached texttable-1.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)
Collecting pycryptodomex>=3.16.0
  Using cached pycryptodomex-3.21.0-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (2.3 MB)
Collecting pyzstd>=0.15.9
  Using cached pyzstd-0.16.2-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (413 kB)
Collecting pyppmd<1.2.0,>=1.1.0
  Using cached pyppmd-1.1.1-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (141 kB)
Collecting pybcj<1.1.0,>=1.0.0
  Using cached pybcj-1.0.3-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (50 kB)
Collecting multivolumefile>=0.2.3
  Using cached multivolumefile-0.2.3-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)
Collecting inflate64<1.1.0,>=1.0.0
  Using cached inflate64-1.0.1-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (96 kB)
Collecting brotli>=1.1.0
  Using cached Brotli-1.1.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (2.9 MB)
Collecting psutil
  Using cached psutil-6.1.1-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_12_x86_64.manylinux2010_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (287 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<4,>=2
  Using cached charset_normalizer-3.4.1-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (143 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5
  Using cached idna-3.10-py3-none-any.whl (70 kB)
Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1
  Using cached urllib3-2.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (128 kB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17
  Using cached certifi-2024.12.14-py3-none-any.whl (164 kB)
Collecting beautifulsoup4
  Using cached beautifulsoup4-4.12.3-py3-none-any.whl (147 kB)
Collecting soupsieve>1.2
  Using cached soupsieve-2.6-py3-none-any.whl (36 kB)
Installing collected packages: texttable, patch, brotli, urllib3, soupsieve, semantic-version, pyzstd, pyppmd, pycryptodomex, pybcj, psutil, multivolumefile, inflate64, idna, humanize, defusedxml, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests, py7zr, beautifulsoup4, bs4, aqtinstall
  DEPRECATION: patch is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for patch ... done
Successfully installed aqtinstall-3.1.21 beautifulsoup4-4.12.3 brotli-1.1.0 bs4-0.0.2 certifi-2024.12.14 charset-normalizer-3.4.1 defusedxml-0.7.1 humanize-4.11.0 idna-3.10 inflate64-1.0.1 multivolumefile-0.2.3 patch-1.16 psutil-6.1.1 py7zr-0.22.0 pybcj-1.0.3 pycryptodomex-3.21.0 pyppmd-1.1.1 pyzstd-0.16.2 requests-2.32.3 semantic-version-2.10.0 soupsieve-2.6 texttable-1.7.0 urllib3-2.3.0

[ShuffleWire]

That my fault, I was installing it outside a venv. Wherever it should work or not is out of scope for you; Working in a venv is okay.

The initial point remains, I let you manage this thread.