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NTPsec forgets to lay an egg.

Other packages, like gpsd, install Python egg-info files to describe the package.

NTPsec does not.

But eggs were never a PEP. Eggs were replaced with wheels in 2009 by PEP 376:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#one-dist-info-directory-per-installed-distribution

PEP376 says NTPsec should install a file called ntp-1.1.2.dist-info

The contents of the .dist-info file is Python Metadata Version 1.2. From PEP 345:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/

This is upwardly compatible with the Metadata 1.0 that gpsd uses in its .egg-info file.

Can waf build this file? Or must it be handmade as gpsd makes its egg?