Any way to improve dependency checking?

[DManowitz]

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• I could not solve my problem using the conda-forge documentation.

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Issue

I like conda-forge, but I repeatedly find packages with dependencies that do not match the dependencies of their upstream packages. I file issues with the appropriate feedstock repo each time I find such a mismatch and sometimes fix the issues myself, but I've filed many such issues, and this doesn't seem like the best way to go about this.

[xhochy]

If the feedstock are Python-based ones, you can improve this by:

1. Ensure that they have a call to pip check in the test section.
2. A lot of projects should also be able to get automated dependency updates via grayskull. You can enable that by setting bot: inspection: update-grayskull in the conda-forge.yml

[DManowitz]

If the feedstock are Python-based ones, you can improve this by:

1. Ensure that they have a call to `pip check` in the test section.

2. A lot of projects should also be able to get automated dependency updates via grayskull. You can enable that by setting `bot: inspection: update-grayskull` in the `conda-forge.yml`

Does the call to pip check need any parameters or anything, or just pip check?

[DManowitz]

Also, perhaps, is there a better way of making this known to feedstock developers / maintainers?

[xhochy]

If the feedstock are Python-based ones, you can improve this by:

1. Ensure that they have a call to `pip check` in the test section.

2. A lot of projects should also be able to get automated dependency updates via grayskull. You can enable that by setting `bot: inspection: update-grayskull` in the `conda-forge.yml`

Does the call to pip check need any parameters or anything, or just pip check?

Just pip check.