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Deprecated sgmllib3k dependency

Open przemek842019 opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments

I noticed that the project currently depends on deprecated library sgmllib3k. Could you share if there’s a plan or timeline to remove this dependency in a future release?

DEPRECATION: Building 'sgmllib3k' using the legacy setup.py bdist_wheel mechanism, which will be removed in a future version. pip 25.3 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to use the standardized build interface by...

przemek842019 avatar Oct 08 '25 12:10 przemek842019

Ugh, of course sgmllib3k has packaging issues now.

Thanks for bringing this up. sgmllib3k was 10 minutes of effort that somebody uploaded to PyPI over 10 years ago. I reached out last year and asked the person if they'd be willing to let me assume ownership so that I could update the project. Their response was basically "I'm worried about supply chain attacks, so there will be no changes to sgmllib3k."

I'll take some time to address this.

kurtmckee avatar Oct 08 '25 12:10 kurtmckee

@kurtmckee thanks a lot for your work and the update!

przemek842019 avatar Oct 10 '25 06:10 przemek842019