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 :(
Cheers,
[1]: https://github.com/simonrob/pyasyncore
[2]: https://github.com/tiran/legacycrypt
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