Re: Embedded six.py in many packages: can someone add a lintian check?

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>, 2014-05-28, 17:18:
> # apt-file search /six.py | wc -l
> 53

Eeek. Some of these embeddings are even nested:

sympy -> mpmath -> six
txclib -> urllib3 -> six
feedgenerator -> (parts of) django.utils -> six

> To avoid that it grows out of proportion, can someone add a lintian 
> check for that? I'd be *very* happy to have this check for myself as 
> well, so that I don't miss it once more (it's quite easy to miss...).

Person who decides to do that could use the embedded-feedparser-library 
tag as a template. (Or, if they are more ambitious, they could implement 
something more generic for detecting embedded copies of Python modules.)

> Also, am I the only one that believe this is a bug, and that we should 
> do mass bug-filling?

It's absolutely a bug.

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Jakub Wilk