python37-requests package does depends on charset_normalizer or chardet

[Marco Atzeri]

On 25.02.2022 10:11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:40:01PM +0800, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:58 PM Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 06:56:46PM +0800, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:37 PM Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
>>>> <sharuzzaman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Cygwin package manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm on my new laptop, and installing packages as necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> After installing python37-requests, my program raised an exception like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>    File "get_header.py", line 1, in <module>
>>>>>      import requests
>>>>>    File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line
>>>>> 100, in <module>
>>>>>      check_compatibility(urllib3.__version__, chardet_version,
>>>>> charset_normalizer_version)
>>>>>    File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line
>>>>> 85, in check_compatibility
>>>>>      raise Exception("You need either charset_normalizer or chardet installed")
>>>>> Exception: You need either charset_normalizer or chardet installed
>>>>>
>>>>> I did not see python37-requests depends or pulling in
>>>>> charset_normalizer or chardet during installation. Is that
>>>>> intentional?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>

> Ah, I've worked out what confused me: I was looking at the old
> "requires" line in the setup.ini file, rather than the new "depends2"
> line.  The newer style of specifying dependencies, used by recent Cygwin
> installers (including the one you were using) doesn't list
> python37-chardet as a dependency.  I suspect that's a bug, and it looks
> like a bug that was introduced with the most recent python37-requests
> package, as it's present for the previous 2.24.0-1 and 2.25.1-1
> releases.
> 
> I think this is one for Marco Atzeri, as the python-requests package
> maintainer...
> 
> In the meantime, you've already found the workaround: just manually
> install the relevant python-chardet package.
> 

Noted. On the TODO list

Regards
MArco