back to single package scheme

[svinota]

Multiple packages scheme turned out to be too complicated for packagers, so:

• move all the sub packages back to the main one, using one main source tree
• one root setup.py/cfg for the main package and one more for pyroute2-minimal (autogenerated?)
• ⚠️ save pr2modules for the time being (⇐ later use deprecation warning for the rest of 0.7.x cycle)
• generate pyroute2-minimal automatically from the main tree (manual modules list for the start)
• investigate if it's ok to mark modules as «safe» based on strict import checks, and use only «safe» ones in pyroute2-minimal

Related:

• dev-python/pyroute2: small version bump .. back to life gentoo/gentoo#25833
• https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2/discussions/929
• https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2/discussions/786

[henning-schild]

from a gentoo perspective i would really appreciate that move, but i can not rule out that gentoo users might one day want to install the split packages

So for i did not try super hard, but if gentoo is not the only voice saying ... "this split is overly complicated", i would be happy to see a build version which squashes all into one. And reading comments in the gentoo PR gentoo/gentoo#25833 it seems like there have been other voices.

Thanks for considering that move!

[henning-schild]

Feel free to notify me for a review/try of a PR. If i have a git commit i can go ahead and try if building for gentoo gets easier once back to one package.

[svinota]

@henning-schild — version 0.7.1 is tagged

[thomasgoirand]

Hi. FYI, I'm discovering that we're going back to single-package stuff. Well, what's bad isn't complicated packages. From my perspective (packaging in Debian), what's bad is disruptive changes. I would have preferred that things stayed the way they were, because now I need more work (again) on this package, which worked already very well.

Please avoid going back and forth in the future...

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

[svinota]

Hey @thomasgoirand . I'm sorry, it's try to find a balance between all the packaging schemes, thus I'm probably abusing distros with more flexible packaging in order to ease life for those with less flexible.

But I promise this change was the last one, at least until versoin > 1.0.

And thank you a lot for your efforts supporting the packaging, really.