Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: c.buhtz@posteo.jp Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python =?UTF-8?Q?dependencies=3F?= Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Feb 2 13:10:24 2023 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.501 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20761 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/df0fac5a583d790549da977bc46e219c@posteo.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 26 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:10:03 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14875 Hello, I'm part of upstream maintainer team of "backintime" (BIT). A modern Python project (which BIT is currently not) would specify dependencies and other build related information's into a pyproject.toml file. But some Python applications (e.g. BIT) do have non-Python dependencies to specific Debian packages e.g. "rsync". As upstream I do document that into README or somewhere else in a human readable file. But is there a machine readable way to specify things like this? Maybe there is a special pyproject.toml section I don't know about yet? Or something like MANIFEST or requirements files I've heard of but never used. How would you wish this as distro maintainers? Side question: Do you, as distro maintainers, have automatic tools to translate dependencies from pyproject.toml (e.g. "pyfakefs") into the related Debian package (e.g. "python3-pyfakefs")? Kind Christian Buhtz