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Re: Bug#1117799: ITP: python-update-checker -- A python module that will check for package updates.



On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 04:42:45AM +0000, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:
* Package name    : python-update-checker
 Version         : 0.18.0
 Upstream Author: Bryce Boe <bbzbryce@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/bboe/update_checker
* License         : BSD-2-Clause
 Programming Lang: Python
 Description     : A python module that will check for package updates


This is a dependency for python-asyncpraw and will be maintained under the umbrella of Debian Python Team

Are you sure it's a good idea to package this in Debian? It seems to me that it would typically mean that users of packages using it in (particularly) Debian stable would be presented with warnings about outdated packages that they can't do anything about without switching over to installing Python packages in a completely different way.

I'd suggest patching out uses of it instead. But in the case of asyncpraw, while it does list update_checker as a dependency in pyproject.toml, the actual code in asyncpraw/reddit.py already tolerates the import failing and falls back to skipping the update check in that case. It seems to me that that's the behaviour we'd actually want in the Debian python3-asyncpraw package anyway, so if I were you I'd skip the extra work of packaging update_checker as well.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]


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