Bug#992361: [Python-modules-team] Bug#992361: O: python-slip

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.08.21 um 22:29 schrieb Emmanuel Arias:

Hi everybody,

    The last upstream release is from 2017, upstream appears to be not that
    active [2].


But have a commit two months ago.



`apt rdepends python3-slip` and then `apt rdepends python3-slip-dbus`

by any other package until today.

I'll be happy to take python-slip. But I will like to know if it is "convenient" to do it. So, first I would like to understand how important is a package for Debian. I run (I guess the correct way) and as Michael mentioned this python-slip will not be used

I used dak:


$ dak rm -Rn python-slip
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

python-slip |    0.6.5-3 | source
python3-slip |    0.6.5-3 | all
python3-slip-dbus |    0.6.5-3 | all

Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org>

------------------- Reason -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
selinux-dbus: policycoreutils-dbus
selinux-python: policycoreutils-gui

Dependency problem found.

As bigon mentioned earlier though, selinux-{dbus, python} will drop this dependency in a few months. At that point, there will be no remaining rdeps of python-slip.

Also I look in the popcon, but I don't know how to interpret it, I mean, for example,

how many downloads are a "good number".


or it's a good idea to leave it for newcomers?

So, what is your recommendation? Take python-slip and other package mark as orphan?

I have no opinion on whether it is useful to keep python-slip or not.

Regards,
Michael

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