[Python-modules-team] Bug#846871: Suggested fix

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:53:59 +0100 Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:
> control: tag -1 patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have verified that aff4 builds just fine if the "keepalive=0.5" line
> is removed from the requires.txt, so the extra python-keepalive package
> is not actually needed.
> 
> Please consider adding the patch below. Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> -Hilko
> 
> diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
> index cdd0693..55ec214 100644
> --- a/requirements.txt
> +++ b/requirements.txt
> @@ -1,2 +1 @@
>  rdflib>=4.0
> -keepalive>=0.5

I confirm that the dependency on keepalive should not be so strict. A quick
lookup in the upstream VCS showed that it is only used in one method of the
SPARQLWrapper class and its absence only raises a warning.

@maintainers
Please incorporate Hilko's patch to prevent transitive dependencies on keepalive
from leading to FTBFS in packages depending on rdflib. Thanks.

@Hilko
Do you intend to package keepalive? Your first message somewhat hinted this.

Cheers,
Ghis