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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    What about PyPI itself? [Was: Re: [opensuse-factory] Plan for python2-only packages]
From:       Matěj Cepl <mcepl () cepl ! eu>
Date:       2018-05-22 15:23:27
Message-ID: slrnpg8dff.332.mcepl () hubmaier ! suse ! cz
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On 2018-05-21, 16:09 GMT, Todd Rme wrote:
> What about packages that are maintained but remain 
> python2-only?
>
> And would it really be a large amount of work if we make it 
> clear that no further work on legacy packages will be done by 
> dlp maintainers?

Let me add one even more controversial comment. I would like to 
start a discussion on purpose of the packaging Python packages 
at all. I mean, certainly we need to package all dependencies of 
applications we ship, and we need to have somehow defined basic 
platform we can maintain. However, what is the advantage of 
having packaged PyPI package, which is completely ignored in 
OpenSUSE repositories, has just minimal number of users?

Just randomly from packages I am going through, what is the 
value for average OpenSUSE user of maintaining package 
python-odorik? It is a Python library providing Python interface 
to the API of tiny Czech mobile phone operator (so small I have 
never heard about it, even though I am a Czech myself).  Would 
its (I would risk to assume) few users be really that harmed by 
using pip, and using the package directly?

I guess the original author of the package was/is OpenSUSE user, 
so he packaged it for the distribution as well, but my point is 
that maintenance of packages is not free (in terms of time we 
need to spend on it, not necessarily money), and we should 
consider the costs of the maintenance.

Best,

Matěj
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