Thank you - I agree and hope to convince upstream PQconnect to pick build dependencies in a better way. This was a bit further down the dependency stack, but hopefully they can help anyway. They brought up a valid concern: prefer not to depend on things not on PyPI and I agree (of course, within reason). It seems unshare is there: https://pypi.org/project/unshare/
/Simon > 28 dec. 2024 kl. 08:08 skrev Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi Simon, > >> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:24:28PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org >> >> * Package name : python-unshare >> Version : 0.22 >> Upstream Author : Shubham Sharma <shubhamsharma1...@gmail.com> >> * URL : https://github.com/shubham1172/unshare >> * License : GPL-3 >> Programming Lang: Python >> Description : extension for C unshare() call >> >> Python extension for C's unshare call, see unshare(2). >> >> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-unshare/ > > I recommend not adding this to Debian. This Python extension wraps a > single syscall. You can achieve a similar effect using ctypes. > > import ctypes > unshare = ctypes.CDLL(None, use_errno=True)["unshare"] > unshare(flags) > > The functionality being added here is useful, but in my opinion it does > not reach the bar of being sufficiently useful to warrant the cost of > carrying it in Debian yet. Bear in mind that every package being added > bears a permanent cost to Debian. > > Please allow me to suggest an alternative. > https://git.subdivi.de/~helmut/python-linuxnamespaces.git/ > Disclaimer: I am the author of the alternative. > > I did not dare to propose adding this to Debian yet, because I consider > it work in progress, but even at this time, it does so much more than > the module you propose that it probably is worth looking into. It is not > API compatible, because it uses the enum module instead of numeric > constants. It also includes a pile of examples for more elaborate > container construction. > > Helmut >
