[Python-modules-team] Bug#861517: python-requests: add virtual package python3?-requests-security with added dependencies

[Thomas Goirand]

On 04/30/2017 02:06 AM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
> Package: python-requests
> Version: 2.12.4-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Python requests ships with a "security" extra that requires an enlarged
> set of dependencies (with python-ndg-httpsclient being the current stone
> in my metaphorical shoe).
> 
> It would be awesome if there was a virtual package that I could depend
> on that would include not just python-requests, but also all the extra
> dependencies that the extra needs.
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> 
> 
> Thoughts?

I guess you probably wanted to write "metapackage", which is a package
with dependencies only without any other content. A virtual package is a
package that never really exists, and which a few package have in the
"Provides:" field. For example, the package nova-compute-hypervisor is a
virtual package provided by nova-compute-{ironic,qemu,lxc,kvm}. That's
IMO not what you wanted to ask for.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)