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Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic

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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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Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-09-04 18:10 +0200
  Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-09-04 18:20 +0200
  Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-09-04 19:40 +0200
    Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-09-05 13:10 +0200
      Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-09-05 18:30 +0200
        Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-09-06 10:30 +0200
          Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Adam Hupp <adam@hupp.org> - 2017-10-03 20:30 +0200
            Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-10-05 12:20 +0200
              Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-10-06 08:40 +0200
                Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-10-06 09:30 +0200
                Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-10-27 21:50 +0200
              Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mathiasb@m9s.biz> - 2017-10-27 14:50 +0200
                Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Adam Hupp <adam@hupp.org> - 2017-12-04 21:20 +0100
                Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-12-04 23:10 +0100
                Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2018-01-01 15:10 +0100
                Re: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-06 20:30 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-08 12:00 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-08 13:30 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Adam Hupp <adam@hupp.org> - 2018-01-15 07:50 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-16 20:20 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-16 20:50 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-14 21:40 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2018-01-14 23:10 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-15 09:40 +0100
                Bug#877849: [tryton-debian] Bug#877849: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2018-01-19 19:10 +0100
                Re: [tryton-debian] Bug#877849: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2018-01-21 17:30 +0100
      Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-09-05 18:50 +0200
        Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@debian.org> - 2017-09-06 11:00 +0200
  Bug#877849: ITP: python-magic -- A python wrapper for libmagic Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2017-10-06 08:40 +0200

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