FS#53450 - [python-dbus] Upstream URL incorrect and package should not be used for new developments

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Léo Germond (leogermond) - Saturday, 25 March 2017, 10:18 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 25 March 2017, 14:08 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Details

Not sure this is the proper way, but it seemed better than flagging deprecated:

- the upstream URL (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings/) has changed and does only mention pydbus, not dbus-python, so I propose in the short term changing the upstream URL to https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/, https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/ or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbus-python/. As someone that wanted to install pydbus and check using upstream URL this was deceitful.

- I don't know if there is a way to mark the package as deprecated in the description so that it would not be used for new developments and refer to the pydbus package instead (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pydbus/) I mean if the maintainers (DBus project) don't advertise it anymore, it must mean it should not be used, right ?
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 25 March 2017, 14:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 25 March 2017, 14:08 GMT
Everything looks just fine to me. URL does has info on dbus-python and it is the current version.

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