* Adam Hupp: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Tue, 3 Oct 2017
11:06:38 -0700):
That's good news, Adam, thanks for it! Looking forward to get your diff.
Best regards,
Mathias
> Sorry about the slow response. This has been a pain for a while. I
> have a provisional diff to merge the two packages. Will give it some
> testing and pass a branch to you folks to take a look. Ideally the
> upstream file package would take it over.
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Mathias Behrle <mbeh...@debian.org> wrote:
> > * Christoph Biedl: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Tue, 5 Sep
> > 2017 18:24:25 +0200):
> >
> >> Mathias Behrle wrote...
> >>
> >> > * Christoph Biedl: " Re: Namespace conflict for python-magic" (Mon, 4 Sep
> >> > 2017 19:38:56 +0200):
> >>
> >> > > The cleanest solution indeed was to bring both upstreams together and
> >> > > ask them to reconcile the APIs and eventually make one of the both
> >> > > implementations obsolete. As things happen such an attempt was started
> >> > > two years ago but appearently never came to a result.[1]
> >> >
> >> > Agreed, that this would be the cleanest solution, but as you say there is
> >> > little probability, that the two upstreams will work together to merge
> >> > their implementations.
> >>
> >> Still this should be tried first. Also, I'm not that pessimistic, see
> >> below. So let's bring the parties involved into the loop:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Thanks for your additional information and initiative to re-launch the
> > merge of the two packages. This reads much better and more optimistic than
> > what I could find until now! Crossing fingers now in the hope for the best
> > outcome for everybody.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mathias
> >
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