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When using the python rule for building, there are duplicate python libs symlinks for example:

bazel-out/darwin-fastbuild/bin/<app>/app.runfiles/pypi__Jinja2_2_8 and bazel-out/darwin-fastbuild/bin/<app>/app.runfiles/__main__/external/pypi__Jinja2_2_8

both of them are the symlinks of the lib exists on my local machine path /private/var/tmp/.../external/pypi__Jinja2_2_8

Since we package our app to zip file for deployment, libs will get copied twice to the zip file when zipping app.runfiles folder. Is this behavior normal or do we doing the bazel app packaging wrong?

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This is a very old bug. Please provide a reproduction using a modern version of rules_python.

In terms of something specific to try, you could try using the built-in --build_python_zip functionality or the output group.

filegroup(
  name = "foo_zip",
  srcs=  ["//bar:foo"],
  output_group = "python_zip_file",
)