I'm the Gentoo maintainer for eyeD3 (python) about python-magic HOT 7 CLOSED

As in, to clarify, python-magic would become python-magic2 or similar, and eyeD3 would get a patch making use of the new name, and then all the packages would be able to co-exist again.

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Well, turns out it's more optional dep in eyeD3 than it looked at first, so it's not that big of an deal, but if you ever want the features of your library to be available to others... :)

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It may be optional, but file detection is MUCH better with the majic dependency. A name change is necessary. Please.

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@ssuominengentoo I am not sure why @ahupp would have to rename his code to accommodate downstream sideways specifics?
Sorry if I comes out a tad blunt, but could there be ways for you to handle this differently?

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@ssuominengentoo ... I guess you have a point after all, per #33 this sounds an issue Fedora and also on debian: thumbor/thumbor#188 and this is referenced here #21 too

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"While this project is still young, can you please rename the library"

This project is 13 years old :) I'm leaning towards renaming the module, but cannot rename the package as I'm not the maintainer. That's up to individual distributions.

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dupe #33

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