[Distutils] [proposal] module dependency specification and overriding for packages

[Robert Collins]

So I realise this isn't the specific thing you're dealing with, but
you could use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/junitxml which is mature,
has no external dependencies, and as a LGPL module should be license
compatible with py.test.

-Rob

On 9 September 2016 at 19:48, Ronny Pfannschmidt
<opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 09.09.2016 09:37, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt
>> <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> while trying to vendor packages that depend on six, i noticed a
>>> problematic
>>> implication
>>>
>>> it is impossible to do this without patching those modules, as such
>>> adding a
>>> fragile maintenance burden.
>>
>>
>> Ronny:
>> I grok the general issue, but would you have a concrete example?
>
> a basic example would be vendoring
>
> https://github.com/kyrus/python-junit-xml and six into pytest
>
> following that we would face 2 problems
>
> a) python-junit-xml imports plain six instead of
> _pytest.vendored_packages.six meaning we have to patch it when including it
> b) debian/fedora will want to remove six and python-junit-xml from their
> pytest-package
>     instead linking to python-six-wheel-... and python-junit-xml-wheel...
> packages as part of their deduplication effort
> meaning they will patch around in the pytest package (which tends to break
> the world)
>
>
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