Declares that it depends on testresources at the python level, but the package doesn't depend on it

[James Westby]

launchpadlib has testresources listed in its requires.txt, though it is only a test dependency.

The package in Ubuntu doesn't depend on python-testresources.

If you try and use pkg_resources in any project that depends on launchpadlib you
get errors if python-testresources isn't installed.

The packaging could add the dependency, but it's only needed to run launchpadlib's
test suite.

launchpadlib could move testresources to be a test dependency (either test_requires
or whatever the spelling it, or an extra_requires for [test] or however that is done.)

In the meantime the workaround is to install python-testresources if you need
to use pkg_resources in a project that depends on launchpadlib.

Thanks,

James

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

python-testresources is only listed as "Suggests"

[S Prasanth (prasanth-s-cmi)]

Still persists in the python3-launchpadlib 1.10.13 package in Ubuntu 20.04.

Not sure if the right solution would be to
A) move `testresources` from `install_requires` to `tests_require` in the setup.py file (https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lazr-developers/launchpadlib/trunk/view/head:/setup.py), or
B) make `python3-testresources` a dependency of the `python3-launchpadlib` package.

Option (A) would make more sense to me. Cheers!

[Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea)]

After 8 years I would not be surprised everyone lost hope of seeing it fixed.

The fact that its codebase is hosted on bazaar instead of a git.* server which accepts fixes does clearly not invite to external contributions, even as simple as this ones.

I would argue that it would be easier to fork it to github and to make it easier to maintain but that is not my call.

For the moment I see the library as dangerous dependency to have dues to it maintenance status.

Anyone developing a client that relies on launchpadlib risks a lot, especially if this client is supposed to be a multi-platform one as I see no CI setup for it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

1.10.15 (2021-10-27)
====================
- Move dependencies of launchpadlib.testing to a new ``testing`` extra.
  [bug=1019700]
- Stop excluding MANIFEST.in from the sdist.
- Declare support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.
- Move code hosting to git (https://code.launchpad.net/launchpadlib).

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The fix is packaged in Ubuntu >= jammy now too.