Bug#807432: RFS: python-jellyfish/0.5.1-1 [ITP]
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote:
> On my earlier attempts (<=0.5.1-1) I did include some patches that were
> aimed towards fixing pep8/flake8 warnings, although I dropped them on
> the 0.5.3 package. The reason was that upstream has expressed his
> willingness to ignore E501 and E226 [2], and after a brief discussion at
> #debian-python I was under the impression that I should "patch it only
> if you must, pep8 is not a must", favouring closeness to upstream over
> style fixes.
>
> I'm wondering if you could provide a definitive answer on whether to
> patch or not patch those issues, as I'm a bit unsure and I'd be happy
> to proceed with either solution.
pep8 is solely checking against the PEP-8 Python style guide. It is
not in any way useful to have Debian patches for changing the style.
cats only runs pep8 so people ask upstream to make their code more
readable via PEP-8, but the style used by upstream is completely up to
them.
--
bye,
pabs
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