[Slackbuilds-users] pyPdf SlackBuild or can't upgrade sofastats

[414N]

Hello Duncan,
thanks for your reply and sorry for the HTML-only message, I’ll make
sure to send plaintext versions too. ;-)
While the suggestion of mentioning the usage of |pip2tgz| to obtain
pyPdf in the README of sofastats can indeed work as a quite good
workaround to the issue at hand, I think there are some drawbacks to it:

  * people who use automated tools to install packages (i.e. |sbopkg|)
    will build a package that won’t work at runtime, even if all the
    other hard-dependencies specified in the |REQUIRES| line are installed
  * dependencies specified in the README should only be optional or
    recommended ones, not mandatory ones (at least, this is what I
    grasped here on SBo)

I guess the second one clashes with the guidelines here on SBo, but I
don’t know for sure.
If someone knows better, please correct me if I’m wrong

Cheers

​

Alan Alberghini

SBo clone: GitHub <https://github.com/414n/slackbuilds.org>

On 20/08/2017 05:29, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:06:47PM +0200, 414N wrote:
>
>> I'm working on an updated sofastats SlackBuild but I stumbled upon a
>> dependency issue...
>> It seems like the sofastats package depends since some time on the `pyPdf`
>> python library for managing PDF exports (see the official documentation at
>> http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/doku.php?id=help:linux_installation#packages_required_dependencies,
>> although they only report distro-specific package names...). Problem is,
>> that the pyPdf package on SBo is not the original library required for the
>> build, but instead is a ~2011 fork based on that library that has since gone
>> separate ways and was renamed `PyPDF2`. This is also reflected on the module
>> name, as it is installed as PyPDF2 inside
>> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PyPDF2/.
>> The full story of the forking is available on the official site of PyPDF2 at
>> https://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/, while the original library is still
>> available at http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/.
>> What I'd like to propose is:
>>
>> - to rename the current pyPdf package to the more proper `PyPDF2` name
>>
>> - to submit (I've already created a SlackBuild) the original unmaintained
>> library as `pyPdf`, so the dependency can be set inside the updated
>> sofastats.info
>> --
>> Alan Alberghini
> Hi Alan,
>
> Please try to avoid sending HTML-only messages to the list in future.
>
> pyPdf is indexed by PyPI - the Python Package Index
> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi),  so pip2tgz will build it. The package ends up
> as pyPdf-1.13-x86_64-1_pip2_SBo.tgz. (PyPDF2 is also listed on PyPI BTW).
>
> Unfortunately you can't put a pip2tgz-built package as a dependency in
> sofastats.info. You would have to mention it in the README as being required.
> That would enable you to get the main SB out the door.
>
> I certainly agree that the existing pyPdf SB should be renamed,
>
> Cheers ... Duncan.
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