Hi, Correct me if I am wrong; but this "backport", as I understand it, should be needed for only older python versions, which we don't really support in terms of unstable/testing. Isn't the right thing to do here just patching the package to use stdlib configparser instead and drop the dependency?
On 30 May 2026 11:24:34 UTC, Aryan Karamtoth <[email protected]> wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >Owner: Aryan Karamtoth <[email protected]> >X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > > >* Package name : python-configparser > Version : 7.2.0 > Upstream Author: Łukasz Langa <[email protected]> >* URL : https://github.com/jaraco/configparser >* License : MIT > Programming Lang: Python > Description : backport of configparser from Python's stdlib > > >This is a dependency of dlp-build and will be maintained under the Python team >umbrella > >Regards, > >Aryan Karamtoth >Debian Maintainer >(IRC: spaciouskarter78) -- Best, Ananthu
