Hi Felix, I am CCing Jonathan as he did the backport.
Le dim. 6 sept. 2020 à 12:21, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> a écrit : > > Thanks for packaging an attractive new tool for Debian! I ran bashtop > recently (from backports) and received this error message: > > % bashtop > Error: Missing python3 psutil module! > > The program works fine, but the relatively strong error message seems > inconsistent with the maintainer's decision to merely recommend > python3-psutil. Please require the missing module or soften the > message. > If you have the other tools for data collection, bashtop doesn't require python3-psutil with Linux but it requires it with kFreeBSD and Hurd (though untested :-). I agree the dependencies of bashtop can be improved. I just realized python3-psutil is enabled by default. To temporarily fix that you can disable python3-psutil in your config file ($HOME/.config/bashtop). To fix the package, we have two possibilities. The first one is to patch bashtop to disable python3-psutil by default and the usage of python3-psutil is up to the users. The second option is to switch the dependency on python3-psutil from "recommend" to "require", but we will have to backport a newer version of python3-psutil as upstream declares that psutil >= 5.7.0 is needed (in Buster we have psutil 5.5.1 and in testing we have 5.7.2). bpytop, the successor of bashtop and already in the NEW queue, also requires psutil >= 5.7.0. So, if we want bpytop in buster-backports, we will have to backport psutil anyway. Any preference? Best, Dylan
