Bug#883246: ITP: python-enum-compat -- Python enum/enum34 compatibility package

[Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>]

Hi,

2017-12-01 11:25 GMT+01:00 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>:

Within Debian, wouldn't this be better achieved by having Python 2 packages
that require enum34 depend on python-enum34 directly, as they already do?
python-enum34 could have a Provides on some other name if that helped.

I already tried this solution. 

I added:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/python-modules/packages/enum34.git/commit/?id=ed2496b8582d939a8ad48769a8b513e916d9df5a

which should handle deps to be automatically added by pybuild, which works.

But when some packages requires enum-compat in setup.py:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/python-modules/packages/python-eventlet.git/tree/setup.py#n16

But even with this change you need to patch upstream code, see:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881989

Without this patch, setuptools install deps fails (tries to download it from pypi). Build of eventlet doesn't fail, because it doesn't downloads requirements from pypi. But other packages which depends on eventlet fails.

The proposed name also isn't really compatible with Debian Python
policies: you can't `import enum_compat` after installing it.

you can't, but enum-compat will be even more confusing. Because python-enum-compat will contain '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/enum_compat-0.0.2.egg-info i think python-enum-compat is correct.

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Best regards
 Ondřej Nový
 
Email: novy@ondrej.org

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