Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic
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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