[Python-modules-team] Sponsor needed for python-itsdangerous

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 04/08/2013 12:17 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>, 2013-04-06, 15:05:
>>> Insisting that all binary packages should have ${python:Depends} will
>>> cause tons of false positives; let's not go that way.
>>>
>>> I think Lintian should emit the tag only if none of the binary
>>> packages have ${python:Depends}. This is not bulletproof, but should
>>> catch most mistakes.
>>
>> what about binary packages that are named python-* ?  can we safely
>> expect them all to Depend: on ${python:Depends} ?
> 
> I have such name-based check implemented in lintian4python. It sort of
> works, but I had to filter out at least:
> - dependency/transitional packages;
> - -dbg packages;
> - -dev packages;
> - documentation packages;
> - python-support, python-central;
> - packages built from src:python-defaults.
> And I'm pretty sure there are still false positives...

I've gone ahead and filed this as a wishlist bug against lintian:

 http://bugs.debian.org/707180

anyone who wants to send a patch for that would be very welcome.  i'm
sorry i don't have the bandwidth to do it myself right now.

Regards,

	--dkg

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