Control: retitle -1 ITP: python-aiokafka -- Kafka integration with asyncio
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 04:22:28PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 05:31:45PM +0800, Tianyu Chen wrote:
> > * Package name : aiokafka
> > Version : 0.14.0
> > Upstream Contact: Andrew Svetlov <[email protected]>
> > * URL : https://github.com/aio-libs/aiokafka
> > * License : Apache-2
> > Programming Lang: Python
> > Description : Kafka integration with asyncio
> >
> > aiokafka is a client for the Apache Kafka distributed stream processing
> > system using asyncio.
> >
> > This library is a dependency of Home Assistant, the Python smart home
> > platform.
> > I plan to maintain this package under Home Assistant Team.
>
> Thanks for packaging this library!
>
> First of all, it's not clear from neither the package name, nor the
> package description, that this is a Python library. Folks versed in the
> Python ecosystem may recognize the asyncio name and make the connection
> but perhaps it should be more explicit. I would suggest naming the
> source package "python-aiokafka" and of course the binary package
> python3-aiokafka (etc.). It'd be also great to mention Python somewhere
> in the package description.
Thanks! I didn't add the python- prefix because this package is part of
aio-libs. src:aio{cache,ftp,mysql} dont have python- so I didn't prefix
that. Retitled.
> Second, it's worth pointing out that Confluent's library, packaged in
> Debian as python3-confluent-kafka, will support asyncio with the 2.13
> release (not yet in Debian):
> https://www.confluent.io/blog/confluent-kafka-clients-2-13-0-release-python-async/
>
> It would perhaps be nice to clarify the strengths of aiokafka over the
> "official" implementation in the package description.
Seems aiokafka's readthedocs have a page for the differences:
https://aiokafka.readthedocs.io/en/stable/kafka-python_difference.html
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Best,
Tianyu Chen
