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Re: Bug#834809: dh-python: requires.txt versions ignored when writing control

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Ok, thank you for the explanation and the quick response :).

Cheers,
Anthony

On Fri, 2016-08-19 at 11:16 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> > I've been using dh-python to build a package and I've had to add a version
> > dependency in my setup.py (requests >= 2.4.2) but this isn't being picked up
> > and added to the debian/control.
> 
> dh_python{2,3} ignores version on purpose. It does more than that, it
> removes recognized dependency from requires.txt so the version is
> ignored later by pkg_resources as well. I'm sure Python guys hate me for that.
> 
> There was PEP386, there is PEP440 and plenty of other related PEPs or
> ideas on how to handle versions. The other thing is to put latest or
> unreleased version into install_requires (AKA requires.txt AKA Requires header)
> just because that's the version upstream worked with during development.
> 
> Until I'm convinced that they finally figured that out and the exception
> is when an upstream project doesn't follow the standard rather than when
> it actually follows it - Debian maintainer will have to confirm that
> upstream is sane WRT versioning to get it copied/translated into Debian
> dependency (and to do that: pydist file with "PEP386" flag has to be
> installed or maintainers have to add versioned build dependency - which
> is my preferred solution as in most cases that version is required for
> tests during build anyway)
> 
> 
> PS I heard some rumors that PyPI will enforce one of the standards, but
>    I don't know the status of that

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Bug#834809: dh-python: requires.txt versions ignored when writing control Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 11:30 +0200
  Re: Bug#834809: dh-python: requires.txt versions ignored when writing  control Anthony Dempsey <adempsey@Brocade.com> - 2016-08-19 12:20 +0200

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