[Python-modules-team] Potential removal - python-irc

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Sandro,
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> which seem both are packaging http://python-irclib.sourceforge.net/
>> (which actually is https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/irc/), dont ask why
>> there are 2 different packages for the same lib (and irclib has files
>> in a irc/ directory so it's also violating the python policy).
>
> python-irclib seems to have been trying to migrate for 783 days.

did you *actually* check why?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718309 it is because
python-irc and python-irclib are the same upstream module.

the reason python-irc is orphaned is because Daniele gave up most of
his packages back then.

>> both are outdated, so which one are you planning to remove? I'd rather
>> not lose all IRC libraries at once
>
> I think at this point I would be planning to remove both.

well I think it's wrong: removing all the python IRC libraries is
providing a disservice, we should find a better solution. Adding
Thomas to this thread, maybe he can explain a bit more.

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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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