On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 02:48:47PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote: > 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.
If you end goal is to have gftools, you might want to patch the use of browserstack-local out of it, if that's possible.
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