Hi,
2021-02-22 18:45 CET, Antonio Terceiro:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote:
> > This library is used to access run commercial BrowserStack service
> > locally. It is able to download and execute the BrowserStack binaries
> > automatically. (Include the long description here.)
> >
> > This package is introduced as a dependency for the gftools package. It
> > is planned to be maintained with the help of the Debian Python team.
>
> Note that downloading and running binaries from arbitrary locations is
> is not suitable to Debian main.
Here is a copy from the source code that may download and run
(proprietary it seems) binaries from arbitrary locations:
class LocalBinary:
def __init__(self):
is_64bits = sys.maxsize > 2**32
self.is_windows = False
osname = platform.system()
if osname == 'Darwin':
self.http_path =
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/browserStack/browserstack-local/BrowserStackLocal-darwin-x64";
elif osname == 'Linux':
if is_64bits:
self.http_path =
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/browserStack/browserstack-local/BrowserStackLocal-linux-x64";
else:
self.http_path =
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/browserStack/browserstack-local/BrowserStackLocal-linux-ia32";
else:
self.is_windows = True
self.http_path =
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/browserStack/browserstack-local/BrowserStackLocal.exe";
I agree this is not very good canditate for inclusion in main. The
download is not done during package build time, but upon library
invocation by the users.
Maybe this has place in non-free, or maybe it does not deserve to be
packaged at all for Debian. Well, the work is done locally, so I am not
sure which option is better.
Thanks,
Romain.
