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Bug#1117799: ITP: python-update-checker -- A python module that will check for package updates.

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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 04:42:45AM +0000, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:
>* Package name    : python-update-checker
>  Version         : 0.18.0
>  Upstream Author: Bryce Boe <bbzbryce@gmail.com>
>* URL             : https://github.com/bboe/update_checker
>* License         : BSD-2-Clause
>  Programming Lang: Python
>  Description     : A python module that will check for package updates
>
>
>This is a dependency for python-asyncpraw and will be maintained under the umbrella of Debian Python Team

Are you sure it's a good idea to package this in Debian?  It seems to me 
that it would typically mean that users of packages using it in 
(particularly) Debian stable would be presented with warnings about 
outdated packages that they can't do anything about without switching 
over to installing Python packages in a completely different way.

I'd suggest patching out uses of it instead.  But in the case of 
asyncpraw, while it does list update_checker as a dependency in 
pyproject.toml, the actual code in asyncpraw/reddit.py already tolerates 
the import failing and falls back to skipping the update check in that 
case.  It seems to me that that's the behaviour we'd actually want in 
the Debian python3-asyncpraw package anyway, so if I were you I'd skip 
the extra work of packaging update_checker as well.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]

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Bug#1117799: ITP: python-update-checker -- A python module that will check for package updates. Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2025-10-11 18:50 +0200

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