XPost: linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.maint.python 
 From: cjwatson@debian.org 
  
 On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 04:42:45AM +0000, Aryan Karamtoth wrote: 
 >* Package name    : python-update-checker 
 >  Version         : 0.18.0 
 >  Upstream Author: Bryce Boe  
 >* URL             : https://github.com/bboe/update_checker 
 >* License         : BSD-2-Clause 
 >  Programming Lang: Python 
 >  Description     : A python module that will check for package updates 
 > 
 > 
 >This is a dependency for python-asyncpraw and will be maintained under the 
 umbrella of Debian Python Team 
  
 Are you sure it's a good idea to package this in Debian?  It seems to me 
 that it would typically mean that users of packages using it in 
 (particularly) Debian stable would be presented with warnings about 
 outdated packages that they can't do anything about without switching 
 over to installing Python packages in a completely different way. 
  
 I'd suggest patching out uses of it instead.  But in the case of 
 asyncpraw, while it does list update_checker as a dependency in 
 pyproject.toml, the actual code in asyncpraw/reddit.py already tolerates 
 the import failing and falls back to skipping the update check in that 
 case.  It seems to me that that's the behaviour we'd actually want in 
 the Debian python3-asyncpraw package anyway, so if I were you I'd skip 
 the extra work of packaging update_checker as well. 
  
 Thanks, 
  
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 Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org] 
  
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