[Python-modules-team] Bug#822157: python-future hides and breaks python-configparser

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Source: python-future
Version: 0.15.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
User: devel at kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/issues/118
Control: affects -1 python-configparser

python-future provides the "configparser" module and so does
the python-configparser package... unfortunately, nobodby caught
this as there is no file conflict (configparser/__init__.py on one side
and configparser.py on other side).

But package depending on python-configparser (and there are 7 of them)
can't use the backported configparser when python-future is installed.

Upstream has not yet dropped the module but I believe we should do it
in Debian and replace it with a dependency on python-configparser. They
are not 100% API compatible but you can't get it both ways and using
the 3.X API is the way forward anyway for anyone who is looking to use
python-future.

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