On 2024-08-02 17:21, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
Hi, I will need some "zombie-telnetlib" (so exactly the same API as existing telnetlib) because I maintain proprietary .deb (not "Debian packages") that need to be installable without rebuild on Buster, Bookworm & Trixie. I understand that "telnetlib3" / "exscript" are 'better/newer' API but that does not fit the need. Debian could also benefit from this zombie-telnetlib. Should it be a native package or one with real upstream on PyPi ?
That was another item we discussed during the 2nd BoF. There are already some projects like these [1][2] and we were considering packaging them to ease the 3.13 transition.
eamanu said he would make a list of upstream projects we could package, but if you have some time, getting a list of projects would be great.
If we end up packaging these libraries, I think it should be clear that they won't be available for Forky (Debian 14). The last thing we want is to maintain some deprecated zombie-libraries forever in Debian :(
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