Hi! On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 06:02:35PM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > Package: flit > Version: 4.1.0-1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > The discoverability of "flit" package is quite poor, alike "furo"; > the naming does not obey the rule of least surprise. > > Many maintainers will erroneously pick up python3-flit-scm > that will get the job done; but will import unneeded extraneous dependencies. > > I consider this as a papercut in the distribution and will fix it.
How about splitting it into flit (the command-line tool) and python3-flit-core (the Python module containing the PEP 517 build backend) instead? For most of packages using pybuild-plugin-pyproject to build, the latter would be enough. -- Dmitry Shachnev
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