Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: c.buhtz@posteo.jp Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: How should upstream document/communicate none-Python =?UTF-8?Q?dependencies=3F?= Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Feb 2 14:16:32 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:hard: -5.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20763 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/810aff0727dde5bfccd4daa3406828a1@posteo.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 16 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:16:11 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <810aff0727dde5bfccd4daa3406828a1@posteo.de> X-Original-References: <20230202134650.d2e4qu3jneci5h2q@yuggoth.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14876 Thanks for your reply. Am 02.02.2023 14:46 schrieb Jeremy Stanley: > with https://pypi.org/project/bindep which is effectively a manifest > of distribution package names and a grammar for indicating Awesome. The upstream maintainers have to create a binddep.txt file. And the distro maintainers do need to use binddep do parse that file and "translate" it into the package names of their distro. Am I right so far? What does other debian python package maintainers think about such a tool? Would this ease your (burden) of work preparing a new package (release)?