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

[Sorin Sbarnea]

After 8 years I would not be surprised everyone lost hope of seeing it
fixed.

The fact that its codebase is hosted on bazaar instead of a git.* server
which accepts fixes does clearly not invite to external contributions,
even as simple as this ones.

I would argue that it would be easier to fork it to github and to make
it easier to maintain but that is not my call.

For the moment I see the library as dangerous dependency to have dues to
it maintenance status.

Anyone developing a client that relies on launchpadlib risks a lot,
especially if this client is supposed to be a multi-platform one as I
see no CI setup for it.

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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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