Exclude children of excluded parents when doing package discovery. Fixes #184.3.4.4

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/__init__.py b/setuptools/__init__.py
index 6f588962..8d46b6dd 100644
--- a/setuptools/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools/__init__.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class PackageFinder(object):
         explicitly excluded packages are removed from it.
         """
         out = cls._find_packages_iter(convert_path(where))
+        out = cls.require_parents(out)
         includes = cls._build_filter(*include)
         excludes = cls._build_filter('ez_setup', '*__pycache__', *exclude)
         out = filter(includes, out)
@@ -57,6 +58,22 @@ class PackageFinder(object):
         return list(out)
 
     @staticmethod
+    def require_parents(packages):
+        """
+        Exclude any apparent package that apparently doesn't include its
+        parent.
+
+        For example, exclude 'foo.bar' if 'foo' is not present.
+        """
+        found = []
+        for pkg in packages:
+            base, sep, child = pkg.rpartition('.')
+            if base and base not in found:
+                continue
+            found.append(pkg)
+            yield pkg
+
+    @staticmethod
     def _all_dirs(base_path):
         """
         Return all dirs in base_path, relative to base_path