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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em ! important;">Greetings,<br>
I’m working on an updated sofastats SlackBuild but I stumbled
upon a dependency issue…<br>
It seems like the sofastats package depends since some time on
the <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">pyPdf</code>
python library for managing PDF exports (see <a
href="http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/doku.php?id=help:linux_installation#packages_required_dependencies">the
official documentation</a>, although they only report
distro-specific package names…). Problem is, that the <a
href="https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/python/pyPdf">pyPdf
package on SBo</a> 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 <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">PyPDF2</code>.
This is also reflected on the module name, as it is installed as
<code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">PyPDF2</code>
inside <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PyPDF2/</code>.<br>
The full story of the forking is available on the <a
href="https://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/">official site of
PyPDF2</a>, while the original library is still available <a
href="http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/">here</a>.<br>
What I’d like to propose is: </p>
<ul style="margin: 1.2em 0px;padding-left: 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">to rename the current pyPdf
package to the more proper <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">PyPDF2</code>
name</li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">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
file<br>
</li>
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<pre>Alan Alberghini
SBo clone: <a href="https://github.com/414n/slackbuilds.org">GitHub</a>
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