[MIR] httpcore

[Lukas Märdian]

TBD by foundations.

dnspython grew a new dependency (Recommends) on src:httpcore, which is pulling in a bunch of transitive dependencies that need MIR:

dnspython: httpcore (R)
==> httpcore: python-h11, python-anyio => python-sniffio

See also: bug #2004272 and https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/component-mismatches.svg

We should investigate if the new dependency can sensibly be avoided, or need to start progressing 4 MIRs for httpcore, python-h11, python-anyio, python-sniffio.

[Pushkar Kulkarni (pushkarnk)]

The httpcore library was brought in by upstream change [1] which was a response to a reported issue [2]. In my understanding, [1] works around a certain limitation of httpx[3] by sub-classing httpx's HTTPTransport and using a custom network backend, created using httpcore [5]. The solution, implemented in the dns/query context, is extended to dns/trio and dns/asyncio.

Since this is an extension of the "DNS-over-HTTPS" feature which was dropped to "Suggests" by [4], I propose we extend the same to httpcore, the latter having been used to improve the "DNS-over-HTTPS" implementation.

[1] https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython/pull/908
[2] https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython/issues/875
[3] https://www.python-httpx.org/
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-h2/+bug/2004272
[5] https://pypi.org/project/httpcore/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dnspython - 2.4.1-1ubuntu2

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dnspython (2.4.1-1ubuntu2) mantic; urgency=medium

  * d/control: Move the httpcore dependency to Suggests (LP: #2030475)

 -- Pushkar Kulkarni <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:40:17 +0530