diff --git a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/MANIFEST.in b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/MANIFEST.in
index bb37a2723dae..1c9ebaab0de4 100644
--- a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
include *.rst
+include azure/__init__.py
+include azure/mgmt/__init__.py
+include azure/mgmt/datalake/__init__.py
diff --git a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/README.rst b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/README.rst
index 8cea9797ff9f..e70fee189c2a 100644
--- a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/README.rst
+++ b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/README.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ This is the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Management namespace package.
This package is not intended to be installed directly by the end user.
-Since version 3.0, this is Python 2 package only, Python 3.x SDKs will use `PEP420 ` as namespace package strategy.
-This package will use `python_requires` to enforce Python 2 installation. This implies that you might see this package on Python 3 environment if you have pip < 9.0 or setuptools < 24.2.0.
+Since version 3.0, this is Python 2 package only, Python 3.x SDKs will use `PEP420 `__ as namespace package strategy.
+To avoid issues with package servers that does not support `python_requires`, a Python 3 package is installed but is empty.
It provides the necessary files for other packages to extend the azure.mgmt.datalake namespace.
diff --git a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.cfg b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c6e79cf31da..000000000000
--- a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[bdist_wheel]
-universal=1
diff --git a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.py b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.py
index 976ec9faaa51..67613203bd80 100644
--- a/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.py
+++ b/azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for
# license information.
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
+import sys
from setuptools import setup
# azure v0.x is not compatible with this package
@@ -23,9 +23,16 @@
except ImportError:
pass
+PACKAGES = []
+# Do an empty package on Python 3 and not python_requires, since not everybody is ready
+# https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/3447
+# https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/3481
+if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+ PACKAGES = ['azure.mgmt.datalake']
+
setup(
name='azure-mgmt-datalake-nspkg',
- version='3.0.0',
+ version='3.0.1',
description='Microsoft Azure Data Lake Management Namespace Package [Internal]',
long_description=open('README.rst', 'r').read(),
license='MIT License',
@@ -37,13 +44,14 @@
'Programming Language :: Python',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
],
- python_requires='<3',
zip_safe=False,
- packages=[
- 'azure.mgmt.datalake',
- ],
+ packages=PACKAGES,
install_requires=[
'azure-mgmt-nspkg>=3.0.0',
],