Hello,
I'm part of upstream maintainer team of "backintime" (BIT).
A modern Python project (which BIT is currently not) would specify
dependencies and other build related information's into a pyproject.toml
file.
But some Python applications (e.g. BIT) do have non-Python dependencies
to specific Debian packages e.g. "rsync".
As upstream I do document that into README or somewhere else in a human
readable file.
But is there a machine readable way to specify things like this? Maybe
there is a special pyproject.toml section I don't know about yet? Or
something like MANIFEST or requirements files I've heard of but never
used.
How would you wish this as distro maintainers?
Side question: Do you, as distro maintainers, have automatic tools to
translate dependencies from pyproject.toml (e.g. "pyfakefs") into the
related Debian package (e.g. "python3-pyfakefs")?
Kind
Christian Buhtz
