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ATTENTION: This isn't the "real" beautiful soup package.

It exists because a checks if the module "bs4" is installed, and will exit if it is not.

For most programs using beautiful soup, the package python-beautifulsoup4 should be used instead. This package is a weird workaround for a unique issue. If you find other programs that also have this issue, you are free to use this workaround. Otherwise it should be avoided.

Thank you @yochananmarqos

ATTENTION: This isn't the "real" beautiful soup package.

It exists because a checks if the module "bs4" is installed, and will exit if it is not.

For most programs using beautiful soup, the package python-beautifulsoup4 should be used instead. This package is a weird workaround for a unique issue. If you find other programs that also have this issue, you are free to use this workaround. Otherwise it should be avoided.

Thank you @yochananmarqos

PSA for AUR package maintainers with packages depending on python-bs4: This is an empty package. Click the URL above for more info:

This is a dummy package designed to prevent namesquatting on PyPI. You should install beautifulsoup4 instead.

AUR packages supposedly depending on this need to depend on python-beautifulsoup4 instead which provides the bs4 Python module.

Hello, this package can't be built now with the recent changes:

==> Making package: python-bs4 0.0.1-3 (Wed May 17 16:45:47 2023)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading bs4-0.0.1.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0

100  1121  100  1121    0     0  15137      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 15137
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    bs4-0.0.1.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Making package: python-bs4 0.0.1-3 (Wed May 17 16:45:48 2023)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found bs4-0.0.1.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    bs4-0.0.1.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting bs4-0.0.1.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Sources are ready.
python-bs4-0.0.1-3: parsing pkg list...
==> Making package: python-bs4 0.0.1-3 (Wed May 17 16:45:49 2023)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Starting build()...
* Getting build dependencies for wheel...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 321, in _call_hook
    raise BackendUnavailable(data.get('traceback', ''))
pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 77, in _build_backend
    obj = import_module(mod_path)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1128, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1142, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

ERROR Backend 'setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__' is not available.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'python-bs4-0.0.1-3': 
error: packages failed to build: python-bs4-0.0.1-3

Thanks for mantaining.

I think you should switch to using python -m build and python -m installer instead of invoking setup.py directly:

/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer, pypa/build or
        other standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!

e.g. (just the idea, not tested with your package):

[...]
makedepends=(
  'python-build'
  'python-installer'
  'python-wheel'
  'python-setuptools'
  [...]
)
[...]
build() {
  [...]
  python -m build --wheel --no-isolation
  # maybe build documentation, ...
  [...]
}

package() {
  [...]
  python -m installer --destdir="$pkgdir" --compile-bytecode=2 dist/*.whl
  [...]
  # Maybe install documentation, license, ...
  [...]
}

Regards!