Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: "W. Martin Borgert" Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:20:03 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Jan 4 19:18:40 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.6 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Old-X-Envelope-From: debacle@debian.org Old-X-Envelope-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13377 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160104191822.GA9605@fama Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 24 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 20:18:22 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20160104191822.GA9605@fama> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8059 Hi, TLDR: Both are the same, providing the "socks" module. We should remove one of them. Maybe renaming the other to python-socks. Longer story: Recently, I upgraded the outdated python-socksipy package. This involved following a new upstream. Later I was informed, that the new upstream was already packaged under the name python-pysocks. Questions: - shall we remove one of the package? (proposal: yes) - which of the two packages should be removed from Debian? (proposal: remove pysocks, just because socksipy is older) - shall the other package provide dummy transitional packages? (proposal: yes) - shall we rename the binary package to python-socks? (proposal: yes) Any ideas or opinions? TIA & Cheers