p4a --requirements ignores absolute folder paths

p4a's --requirements option appears to ignore/drop absolute folder paths. This is the output at the end building the dependencies I get:

[INFO]:    # Installing pure Python modules
[INFO]:    The requirements (Cython, https://github.com/JonasT/nettools/archive/master.zip, https://github.com/JonasT/wobblui/archive/master.zip, pyphen, python-dateutil, python-docx) don't have recipes, attempting to install them with pip

... the absolute folder path I put is simply missing. It is also not part of the site-packages as it is supposed to be in the final .apk created.

Versions

• Python: python 3 host, python3crystax target
• OS: ubuntu docker
• Kivy: not used
• Cython: latest from pip

buildozer.spec

not used

Logs

[INFO]:    NDK is crystax, skipping biglink (will this work?)
[INFO]:    # Postbuilding recipes
[INFO]:    Postbuilding harfbuzz for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding hostpython3crystax for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding jpeg for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding libxml2 for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding openssl for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding png for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding sdl2_image for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding sdl2_mixer for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding sdl2_ttf for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding freetype for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding libxslt for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding python3crystax for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding lxml for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding reportlab for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding sdl2 for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding setuptools for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding six for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding Pillow for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Postbuilding pyjnius for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Copying pyjnius java class to classes build dir
[INFO]:    -> directory context /root/.local/share/python-for-android/build/other_builds/pyjnius-python3crystax-sdl2/armeabi-v7a__ndk_target_19/pyjnius
[DEBUG]:   -> running cp -a jnius/src/org /root/.local/share/python-for-android/build/javaclasses/unnamed_dist_1
[INFO]:    <- directory context /root/.p4a-shell-build
[INFO]:    Postbuilding pysdl2 for armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    # Installing pure Python modules
[INFO]:    The requirements (Cython, https://github.com/JonasT/nettools/archive/master.zip, https://github.com/JonasT/wobblui/archive/master.zip, pyphen, python-dateutil, python-docx) don't have recipes, attempting to install them with pip
[INFO]:    If this fails, it may mean that the module has compiled components and needs a recipe.
...

As mentioned above, there should be an absolute folder path in that pure python modules list, and there just isn't. It is just quietly dropped which breaks the final .apk since the dependency is just missing.

Much earlier, I get this output:

[INFO]:    Dist will also contain modules (python-docx, /my-app-lib-copy/, https://github.com/JonasT/wobblui/archive/master.zip, python-dateutil, https://github.com/JonasT/nettools/archive/master.zip, pyphen, Cython) installed from pip

So the absolute path dependency is initially recognized, and gets lost somewhere.

This is now fixed on p4a master with the merge of #1489 ! 🎉