[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1023401: src:python-biopython: unsatisfied build dependency in testing: python3-rdflib

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

bringing this issue up to the release team.

Am Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 09:04:50PM +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> 
> On 03-11-2022 18:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > its all about the fact that rdflib is broken and removed from testing.
> > We are nagging upstream constantly[1] with no success so far.  This
> > issue creates noise about testing removals in about 100 packages and
> > is extremely annoying.
> &&
> On 03-11-2022 17:58, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > no comment at bug#1012482 which includes a
> > suggestion (which I agree with) to lower the severity of that bug to
> > simply not be release-critical: Yes, naïve implementations of the RDF
> > protocol can be tricked into pulling data from the filesystem, because
> > URIs are not necessarily all http-based and failing to care for that
> > may lead to surprises - which would be neat if generic RDF processing
> > tools were to ensure protection against but in my opinion unreasonable
> > to *require*: As I understand it, the equivalent would be to kick out
> > libcurl from Debian because it doesn't offer the heavy and complex
> > sandboxing mechanisms implemented in (only the biggest) web browsers.
> 
> I haven't spent time yet to make up *my* mind about the severity of the
> problem, but if people have serious doubts about the severity, the Release
> Team is the appropriate body in Debian to make that call. So if you believe
> the bug severity is too high, by all means bring it to the RT.
> That's why I filed these bugs today.

It would be really help if the noise this bug creates in the package
pool could be reduced.

Kind regards
    Andras.

PS: Please CC me since I'm not subscribed to debian-release.
 
> > [1] https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues/1844




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