Re: Bug#785275: ITP: python-ipaddress -- Backport of the ipaddress module from Python 3.3

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Friday, May 22, 2015 02:17:59 PM Ian Cordasco wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Tristan Seligmann
> 
> <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> wrote:
> > On 22 May 2015 at 16:06, Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> 
wrote:
> >> Or are you saying that the ipaddress backport is not compatible with
> >> python3 stdlib's ipaddress? (This would be a very unfortunate state of
> >> affairs, but impossible to imagine)
> > 
> > This should have been "*not* impossible", of course.
> 
> Based purely on the fact that the current version of ipaddr is
> undocumented, I would strongly be against any patch to packaged
> software that causes a dependency on it for the sole purpose of
> Debian's packaging of that software. You're asking the maintainers of
> those packages to maintain patches for things that are undocumented.
> In my opinion, Scott, if your'e so adamant about not packaging
> ipaddress for Python 2, you should work with ipaddr to fix things so
> maintainers can reliably maintain the software. Until that is fixed, I
> think Tristan's packaging should move forward so Debian doesn't fall
> too far behind pip.

I don't know what happens on pip.  I know if I do:

>>> import ipaddr
>>> help(ipaddr)

The module documentation is all there exactly like it should be.

I should have a patch today.  You'll certainly have a patch from me faster 
than python-ipaddress will get through New.

Scott K