[Debian-med-packaging] [MoM] Packaging of python-csb - Report #5

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Tomás,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:19:08PM +0100, Tomás Di Domenico wrote:
> After receiving feedback from the Python team, I've recreated the
> repository for python-csb using the upstream release tarball. I had
> previously used a newer revision I checked out by hand from the upstream
> repository. Simon McVittie gave a great explanation of when and how it
> would be ok to package manually checked-out code in the Python list [1].

Nice to see that I'm not the only mentor and there is a wider community
that cares for newcomers. :-)

> It was also suggested that, since upstream supports Python 3, a
> python3-csb package could be built [2]. This has some extra difficulty
> attached to it since dh does not support Python 3 yet, and so some code
> has to be written manually. Once the Python 2 package is finished, I'll
> turn my attention to the Python 3 version.
> 
> I'll now ask for a second round of comments from the Python list.
> Hopefully I am close to having a finished package.

Thanks for the report - just keep us updated to enable giving some
further hints.  For the moment I changed the target distribution from
"unstable" to "UNRELEASED" as it is not only our team policy but I guess
also for the pathon modules team. (git pull)

Kind regards and thanks for your continuos work on this

       Andreas.

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