ICSE 2025 Artifact for "An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem"

Artifact

This artifact includes the source code and data needed to reproduce the results of our paper.

Files

inactive_task: This folder contains the dataset we collected, including:

A list of all packages in PyPI as of 2023.1.9 in all_package.json

A list of halted packages in halted_packages.pkl

A list of packages that haven't received any commit for a long time in long_time_no_commit.json

A list of inactive packages and their corresponding GitHub repositories in inactive_pkg_repo_list.json

A mapping of packages to their corresponding GitHub links in pgk2url.json

A dataset with details in deprecation_dataset/, which includes rationales, alternative solutions, and package characteristics (RQ1). Click [here](inactive_task/deprecation_dataset/README.md) for more details.

ghd_dataset: This folder contains the dependency information for PyPI, which we used to build the dependency network. Please unzip the file before use.

down_deps: The folder contains scripts to process our data, including

similar_brothers: A script to find similar brother packages of deprecated packages.

delta_of_downdeps.py: A script that calculates the gain of downstream dependencies.

regression: This folder contains scripts for the models that estimate the effect of deprecation announcements, which can be used to reproduce the results of RQ2.

questionnaire_data: The folder includes the questionnaire prototype and responses (RQ3, 4). Click [here](./questionnaire_data/README.md) for more details.