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Re: conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy

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On January 4, 2016 2:18:22 PM EST, "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> wrote:
>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Longer story: Recently, I upgraded the outdated python-socksipy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)

Yes.  Please file the RM bug.

> - which of the two packages should be removed from Debian?
>   (proposal: remove pysocks, just because socksipy is older)

Reasonable.  Also both maintained by DPMT, so we can just pick.

> - shall the other package provide dummy transitional packages?
>   (proposal: yes)

Actually, based on Python Policy both have wrong binary names.  The binaries should be python/python3-socks since they provide the socks module.  No need to rename the source.  I think transitional packages are only needed if there are rdepends that need updating and the can't be done now.

> - shall we rename the binary package to python-socks?
>   (proposal: yes)

Definitely.  See above.

>Any ideas or opinions?

Scott K

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conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-01-04 20:20 +0100
  Re: conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-05 02:00 +0100
    Re: conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-08 08:00 +0100
      Re: conflicting packages python-pysocks and python-socksipy "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-01-09 17:30 +0100

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