--remove-untracked does not remove old versions of root package

[kkirsche]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1715)

• Poetry version: Poetry version 1.1.13

• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: https://github.com/kkirsche/poetry-remove-untracked

  • This is a full repo with a before and after tag with reproduction steps in the README.md

Issue

I expect the --remove-untracked flag to remove versions of the root package that no longer match the pyproject.toml file.

By not removing these files, if the project uses importlib.metadata.version, this will return an incorrect version number even though the pip installation is aware that a later version is the newest.

[jclerman]

I encountered this exact issue earlier this week. Not clear if the described effect on importlib_metadata (or importlib.metadata, depending on the Python version) should also be considered a bug in that library - but regardless, making --remove--untracked behave as requested would make its results more deterministic, which is a Good Thing.

[kkirsche]

I encountered this exact issue earlier this week. Not clear if the described effect on importlib_metadata (or importlib.metadata, depending on the Python version) should also be considered a bug in that library - but regardless, making --remove--untracked behave as requested would make its results more deterministic, which is a Good Thing.

I’ve filed https://bugs.python.org/issue46774 To understand if they consider this a bug in the upstream Python language.

[finswimmer]

Hello,

this is a duplicate of #3289, which is already solved by #3900

fin swimmer

[kkirsche]

When will this be in the released poetry version if it was already solved?

[jaraco]

Looks like it's included with 1.2.0a1 and later.

[AlexAurand]

@jaraco Is there a tentative release date for poetry 1.2?

[jaraco]

I don't maintain this project; I hope someone else knows.

[AlexAurand]

@finswimmer Is there a tentative release date for poetry 1.2?

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