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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > > Mathias Behrle > PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 > AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6 -- Adam Hupp | http://hupp.org/adam/
