Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Kamens writes: > * Speaking as an end user, I do not agree with the statement, "I see that > python3-selenium now has a NEWS.Debian entry that points to > README.Debian, which seems like a reasonable way to bring this to users' > attention." Most users don't know to look for

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Thank you to everyone here who explained the context of which I was unaware surrounding this issue. I appreciate that you took the time to do that. A couple points in response... * For the record, if the package maintainer had said in the other ticket, "Yes, the package is broken, but

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Kamens writes: > 2. Download a bazel binary from >https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases and make it >executable in your search path This is going to be the biggest obstacle in the way of any proper fix for this bug. All Debian packages in main must be built with

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello Jonathan, On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 09:50:51AM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > The current python3-selenium package does not include all of the > components that the vendor expects to be included in the package, and > as a result it does not work. This is a regression from previous > versions

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 22/09/2023 14:50, Jonathan Kamens wrote: The current version of the Selenium bindings for all supported programming languages relies on a Rust executable called Selenium Manager for managing the webdriver executables required for the various browsers that the bindings interact with.

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Package: tech-ctte Severity: important This referral to the technical committee concerns the issue identified in ticket 1051368. I appear to be at an impassse in that ticket with the maintainer of the python3-selenium package referenced in that ticket, and they have stopped responding to my