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Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python dependencies?

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Hi,

Op Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 01:10:03PM +0000 schreef c.buhtz@posteo.jp:
> 
> 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")?

Afaik there is no such thing.  One hard problem to tackle first would
be to map the name of e.g. an RPM package to the equivalent one in
the Debian/dpkg world. These are sometimes, but _not_ always, the same...

Bye,

Joost

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How should upstream document/communicate none-Python  dependencies? c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2023-02-02 14:20 +0100
  Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python  dependencies? c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2023-02-02 15:20 +0100
    Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python  dependencies? Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2023-02-02 15:40 +0100
  Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python  dependencies? Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2023-02-02 15:20 +0100
  Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python  dependencies? Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb+debian-python@uvt.nl> - 2023-02-02 15:20 +0100

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