[Debian-pan-maintainers] Bug#1067993: python-fastparquet: Please replace python3-appdirs build-dependency with platformdirs

[Simon McVittie]

Source: python-fastparquet
Version: 2024.2.0-1
Severity: important
Control: block 1060427 by -1
Tags: trixie sid
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: appdirs-removal

python3-appdirs is dead upstream[1] and its Debian maintainer has indicated
that it should not be included in trixie[2]. A recommended replacement is
python3-platformdirs[3], which is a fork of appdirs with a very similar API.

Please migrate from appdirs to platformdirs or some other replacement,
so that appdirs can be removed.

(I also notice that this package has a Build-Depends on python3-appdirs, but
not a Depends. Is this a mistake? I would be surprised for it to need
python3-appdirs at build-time but not at runtime.)

Thanks,
    smcv

[1] https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs/commit/8734277956c1df3b85385e6b308e954910533884
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1060427
[3] https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/