[Python-modules-team] Bug#857006: Bug#857006: python-urllib3: Missing version constraint for six

[Scott Kitterman]

On March 7, 2017 7:11:35 PM EST, Daniele Tricoli <eriol at mornie.org> wrote:
>Hello Tristan,
>thanks for this report.
>
>On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:19:02 AM CET Tristan Seligmann wrote:
>> setup.py does not have a version constraint on six as it is vendored
>> upstream, but since we are unvendoring it in Debian, we need a
>version
>> constraint. This is made trickier by the fact that upstream won't be
>> tracking the minimum version for us, as they only need to care about
>the
>> specific version they vendor. Perhaps a >= <version that is vendored>
>> constraint in Debian would be the easiest?
>
>It seems that urllib3 is vendoring six 1.10.0:
>https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/commit/ce9394a2564608823019ad6b59276bfa82bad642
>
>I will add the >= 1.10.0, on the next upload. I plan to upload
>urllib 1.20 to experimental soon.
>
>Should I need to backport this also for Stretch?
>
>Cheers,

Stretch has 1.10, so I would think that the issue is not RC for Stretch.  I'd leave it the way it is.

Scott K