From: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:09:22 +0100
Subject: Drop custom build_ext class

This was only used to catch exceptions during build (which we probably
don't want in Debian anyhow) and does not work anymore with distutils
from setuptools
---
 setup.py | 24 ------------------------
 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2f2a5e3..67ad40d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ import platform
 import sys
 from itertools import chain
 
-from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
 from distutils.errors import (
     CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, DistutilsPlatformError)
 from setuptools import Distribution as _Distribution, Extension, setup
@@ -83,29 +82,6 @@ class BuildFailed(Exception):
         self.cause = sys.exc_info()[1]  # work around py 2/3 different syntax
 
 
-class ve_build_ext(build_ext):
-    """This class allows C extension building to fail."""
-
-    def run(self):
-        try:
-            build_ext.run(self)
-        except DistutilsPlatformError:
-            raise BuildFailed()
-
-    def build_extension(self, ext):
-        try:
-            build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
-        except ext_errors:
-            raise BuildFailed()
-        except ValueError:
-            # this can happen on Windows 64 bit, see Python issue 7511
-            if "'path'" in str(sys.exc_info()[1]):  # works with both py 2/3
-                raise BuildFailed()
-            raise
-
-cmdclass['build_ext'] = ve_build_ext
-
-
 class Distribution(_Distribution):
 
     def has_ext_modules(self):