Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> added the comment:
> In the case of this it's mood to even discuss requiring > os-release. (a) the PR does not add a hard dependency > on os-release, and (b) the file is present anyway. For anything outside cpython, there is the distro module, and the distro module is checking os-release first if it exists. I don't see a good value to add a second API for a subset of the distro module. Apparently the distro module is used by other projects. $ apt rdepends python3-distro | grep '^ [DRS]' | wc -l 33 If you think, distro information is needed to run cpython's tests, then make that function available as part of the tests, and don't promote that as a new API, although it is better in many cases to rely on feature tests instead of version information and distro names. Don't expose it as yet another API. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue28468> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
