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On 28/07/15 10:29 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>On 07/27/2015 11:42 PM, William M Edmonds wrote:
>> python-swiftclient is only needed by operators that are using the swift
>> backend, so it really doesn't belong in requirements.txt. Listing it in
>> requirements forces all operators to install it, even if they're not
>> going to use the swift backend. When I proposed a change [1] to move
>> this from requirements to test-requirements (would still be needed there
>> because of tests using the swift backend), others raised concerns about
>> the impact this could have on operators who use the swift backend today
>> and would be upgrading to Liberty. I believe everyone agreed this should
>> not be in requirements, but the fact is that it has been, so operators
>> may have (incorrectly) been depending on that during upgrades. If we
>> remove it in Liberty, and there are changes in Liberty that require a
>> newer version of swiftclient, how would those operators know that they
>> need to upgrade swiftclient?
>
>Even if swiftclient was removed from requirements.txt, I would still
>keep it as a hard Depends: in Debian, so it would not change anything
>for (Debian) users.

I think this is perfectly find and it's a good thing. Upstream
packages don't need to follow everything that happens downstream. From
a downstream perspective, it's a requirement that is not needed
neither in the CI nor in most of the development environments.

Cheers,
Flavio

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