[Python-apps-team] Bug#958292: pipenv: Change tagline to no longer endorse it as official

David D Lowe daviddlowe.flimm at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 09:47:50 BST 2020


Package: pipenv
Version: 11.9.0-1
Severity: minor

The description of the Debian package pipenv says:

 > Python's officially recommended packaging tool
 >
 > Pipenv is the officially recommended Python packaging tool from
 > Python.org.


This is may be misleading. Pipenv is not the officially recommended tool by
Python core developers. Rather, it was recommended by PyPA documentation
for a while. PyPA are a group of volunteers who care about packaging in
Ubuntu, they are not in a position to bless a package as "official" or
"from python.org".

See this article, the section entitled: "“Officially recommended tool”,
or how we got here".

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/#officially-recommended-tool-or-how-we-got-here

The tagline has been changed upstream. The GitHub repo now says:

 > Python Development Workflow for Humans.

See: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

And so does the page on PyPI, see https://pypi.org/project/pipenv/

I think Debian should follow suit and change the tagline in the Debian
package description.



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