Having six library as dependency

Rahul Amaram

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Feb 5, 2016, 3:16:16 AM2/5/16

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Hi,
I was trying to package pg8000 for Debian GNU/Linux. One of the concerns was that pg8000 distributes six.py when there is actually another debian package (named python-six) providing six library. Does pg8000 work with six 1.10.0? Is there any reason why six.py is bundled with pg800 rather than having six as a dependency?

Thanks,
Rahul.

William Moreno

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Feb 9, 2016, 10:23:15 AM2/9/16

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Hello, I have the same issue than Rahul with the packaging of pg8000 in Fedora/EPEL [0]

I am proposing a pull request to use the latest 1.10.0 python-six library available in Fedora[1] and Debian[2] repos, I think than I do my homework and all test are passing in suported postgresql but my pull request is bronking the support for python2.5, the last releace of python2.5 is around five years ago[3], I see than Rahul have proposed a patch similar to my pull request[4].

Any way Rahul and me will continue the packaging process patching pg8000 to use the system python-six library, but both will apreciate alot than you accept the pull request, at different from Debian there is still python2.4 in EPEL5, but there is a parallel versión of python2.6 available[5] so suporting python =<2.6 it is fine for both mayor families of GNU/linux out there.

0: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304522

1: https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-six

2: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-six

3: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/

4: https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000/issues/99

5: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26