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From: Adam Hupp <adam@hupp.org>
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Subject: Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 21:20:01 +0100
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I've pushed an update here:

https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/tree/libmagic-compat

It includes a copy of libmagic's bindings, wrapped in deprecation
warnings.  So apps should work regardless of which they depend on.
Could you take a look and see if this works for your case?

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Mathias Behrle <mathiasb@m9s.biz> wrote:
> * Mathias Behrle: " Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for
>   python-magic" (Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:01:16 +0200):
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> are there any news on the subject?
>
> The release of Tryton, that will require python-magic is scheduled for next
> week. It would be a great service to our users and simplify things a lot, if we
> had a common python-magic in place. Please let us know, if we can help with the
> planned merge.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathias
>
>
>> * Adam Hupp: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Tue, 3 Oct 2017
>>   11:06:38 -0700):
>>
>> That's good news, Adam, thanks for it! Looking forward to get your diff.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mathias
>>
>>
>> > Sorry about the slow response.  This has been a pain for a while.  I
>> > have a provisional diff to merge the two packages.  Will give it some
>> > testing and pass a branch to you folks to take a look.  Ideally the
>> > upstream file package would take it over.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> wrote:
>> > > * Christoph Biedl: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Tue, 5 Sep
>> > > 2017 18:24:25 +0200):
>> > >
>> > >> Mathias Behrle wrote...
>> > >>
>> > >> > * Christoph Biedl: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Mon, 4
>> > >> > Sep 2017 19:38:56 +0200):
>> > >>
>> > >> > > The cleanest solution indeed was to bring both upstreams together and
>> > >> > > ask them to reconcile the APIs and eventually make one of the both
>> > >> > > implementations obsolete. As things happen such an attempt was
>> > >> > > started two years ago but appearently never came to a result.[1]
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Agreed, that this would be the cleanest solution, but as you say there
>> > >> > is little probability, that the two upstreams will work together to
>> > >> > merge their implementations.
>> > >>
>> > >> Still this should be tried first. Also, I'm not that pessimistic, see
>> > >> below. So let's bring the parties involved into the loop:
>> > >
>> > > [...]
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your additional information and initiative to re-launch the
>> > > merge of the two packages. This reads much better and more optimistic than
>> > > what I could find until now! Crossing fingers now in the hope for the best
>> > > outcome for everybody.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Mathias
>> > >
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