Error installing: "Exception: Versioning requires sdist tarball..."

[Stooovie]

Hi, I'm getting this on running the setup.py command in a Home Assistant Docker container:

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ERROR:root:Error parsing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/core.py", line 96, in pbr
attrs = util.cfg_to_args(path, dist.script_args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/util.py", line 270, in cfg_to_args
pbr.hooks.setup_hook(config)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/hooks/init.py", line 25, in setup_hook
metadata_config.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/hooks/base.py", line 27, in run
self.hook()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/hooks/metadata.py", line 26, in hook
self.config['name'], self.config.get('version', None))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pbr/packaging.py", line 874, in get_version
name=package_name))
Exception: Versioning for this project requires either an sdist tarball, or access to an upstream git repository. It's also possiblethat there is a mismatch between the package name in setup.cfg and the argument given to pbr.version.VersionInfo. Project name cometblue was given, but was not able to be found.
error in setup command: Error parsing /config/cometblue-master/setup.cfg: Exception: Versioning for this project requires either an sdist tarball, or access to an upstream git repository. It's also possible that there is a mismatch between the package name in setup.cfg and the argument given to pbr.version.VersionInfo. Project name cometblue was given, but was not able to be found.

Any tips? Thanks!

[uliluckas]

You are probably no longer interested in the response :-) But still for documentation purposes...

You need to have the .git directory as it is created when you do

git clone https://github.com/xrucka/cometblue.git

It's used by setup.py to get version information.
You probably downloaded a zip instead of cloning. That would explain why you are missing the .git directory.