Why is conda not installing a dist-info for my main installation target, but is for all its dependencies?

Question

I'm building/installing a package: foo, using conda, which has several dependencies: bar and blatz, which I'm also building/installing with conda. They all build without error. When I conda install foo, foo and all its dependencies get installed correctly and I can run foo just fine. But, while all foo's dependencies get equivalent ...dist-info folders installed into site-packages/, foo does not! And that makes it impossible to use the following trick for automatic version reporting:

(foo/__init__.py):

from importlib.metadata import version
__version__ = version('foo')

Why does conda omit the ...dist-info folder for the main installation target, while including it for the dependencies?

Answer 1

Sorry, this was a false alarm caused by slightly different package names used on the conda (PyBERT) and pip (PipBERT) sides of the fence. :(

==> You must use the Pip package name in the code shown above.