[Bug 1019700] Re: Declares that it depends on testresources at the python level, but the package doesn't depend on it

[S Prasanth]

Still persists in the python3-launchpadlib 1.10.13 package in Ubuntu
20.04.

Not sure if the right solution would be to
A) move `testresources` from `install_requires` to `tests_require` in the setup.py file (https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lazr-developers/launchpadlib/trunk/view/head:/setup.py), or
B) make `python3-testresources` a dependency of the `python3-launchpadlib` package.

Option (A) would make more sense to me. Cheers!

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Title:
  Declares that it depends on testresources at the python level, but the
  package doesn't depend on it

Status in launchpadlib :
  Triaged
Status in python-launchpadlib package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in python-launchpadlib source package in Precise:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  launchpadlib has testresources listed in its requires.txt, though it
  is only a test dependency.

  The package in Ubuntu doesn't depend on python-testresources.

  If you try and use pkg_resources in any project that depends on launchpadlib you
  get errors if python-testresources isn't installed.

  The packaging could add the dependency, but it's only needed to run launchpadlib's
  test suite.

  launchpadlib could move testresources to be a test dependency (either test_requires
  or whatever the spelling it, or an extra_requires for [test] or however that is done.)

  In the meantime the workaround is to install python-testresources if you need
  to use pkg_resources in a project that depends on launchpadlib.

  Thanks,

  James

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