Re: Bug#891939: ITP: python-gitlab -- GitLab API client library for Python
Hi Federico,
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:20:15PM +0000, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Federico Ceratto <federico@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : python-gitlab
> Version : 1.3.0
> Upstream Author : Gauvain Pocentek <gauvain@pocentek.net>
> * URL : https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab
Funny that a Gitlab API is maintained at Github ...
> * License : LGPLv3
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : GitLab API client library for Python
>
> Python 2/3 library for the GitLab APIs v3 and v4
>
> This package is meant to replace the current package with same name
> which contains a different library from https://github.com/pyapi-gitlab/pyapi-gitlab/
> Such library does not support API v4.
I intended to run some Python scripts against Salsa and realised that
the packaged pyapi-gitlab is way outdated but had some better success
with latest upstream 7.8.4. I was about to ping the maintainer Benjamin
Drung (in CC) about the status. In any case I agree that we do not need
an outdated API which is not even actively maintained any more.
> Also, the two libraries have clashing namespaces:
>
> https://github.com/pyapi-gitlab/pyapi-gitlab/issues/263
> https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues/385
>
> Alternatively, the new packaged could be named python-pygitlab and make
> use of "Conflicts" to prevent clashing.
>
> The package will be maintained under the "debian" group on:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/python-pygitlab
I cloned this for testing the package and the files in your pristine-tar
branch are not properly named accourding to the source package name. If
you want me to push my fix I can do so. I'll let you know about other
issues I might face when testing the package.
Apropos name choice: I do not fully understand why you choose the
repository name python-pygitlab (instead of python-gitlab) nor why you
do not maintain this in Debian Python Modules Team (where it should
belong to IMHO).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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