Vcstool has been stale

[christophebedard]

I believe that the Deb release (python3-vcstool or through ros-dev-tools) should continue as-is. For PyPI, the plan is to release it under a different name.

[traversaro]

@OwenClaxton

versation is still quite relevant. Last merge to master was four years ago; we’re now starting to see some cracks appear, such as this:

/usr/bin/vcs:6: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  from pkg_re

The tricky part of this is that the pypi name need to match the Python package name, so if you want to release on PyPI with a name different from vcstool, I guess we also need to change the name in vcstool/setup.py at de18e196396e5d7d3dda75ad92304f8e22352c30 · ros-infrastructure/vcstool · GitHub, while the Python module name (i.e. the one used in import vcstool) can remain vcstool.