py-Socks versus py-SocksiPy-branch

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi!

I ran into an issue installing py-sphinx. It indirectly depends on 
py-Socks, but that conflicts with py-SocksiPy-branch, which I have 
installed as a dependency of some other Python package.

Reading the description of py-Socks, it sounds like it provides a drop-in 
replacement for SocksiPy-branch, which is unmaintained.

Is that true?

If so, why do we have both? Would it be feasible to move all depending 
packages to Socks? Do we need some kind of shim to make setuptools happy 
when it looks for SocksiPy-branch?

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Benny