#17512 Dependees (dependents) should return dependent files for removed modules New issue created by njgrisafi Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Related to this bug report I opened but changed it into a feature request. When removing a whole Python module

dependees

(now

dependents

) does not return dependent files. On the latest version 2.14 and it seems to be a warning:

10:28:00.15 [WARN] Pants cannot infer owners for the following imports in the target app/module_1/example.py:

  * app.module_2.example.test (line: 1)

On earlier versions it returns no output. Describe the solution you'd like When removing modules and then running

./pants dependees --changed-since

(or

dependents

), dependent targets of the removed modules will be returned in the output. For example, given this module:

app/
  __init__.py
  module_1/
      __init__.py
      example.py (imports app.module_2.example)
      BUILD
  module_2/
      __init__.py
      example.py
      BUILD

When removing

app/module_2/

, add changes in git and then running

./pants dependees --changed-since=HEAD

it should return

app/module_1/example.py

in the results. Describe alternatives you've considered An additional layer of tooling over pants to detect these issues. Custom logic to account for this. Open to more ideas. Additional info Please see example repo with predefined version branches: • https://github.com/njgrisafi/pants-example Checkout one of the follow version branches above and perform the following test: 1.

rm -rf app/module_2/

2.

git add --all

3.

./pants dependees --changed-since=HEAD

pantsbuild/pants