[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#838266: Salvaging pylibtiff to Debian Python team or removing it from Debian?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

the former maintainer of pylibtiff inside Debian Med team Mathieu
Malaterre does not care for the package any more and thus I tried
my luck to salvage it.  I have no personal interest in this package
nor does it have any rdepends.  There is no direct connection to
the Debian Med topic but since there are some users according to
popcon[1] it might be worth saving.

Thus I fetched the latest upstream commit from Github and moved
the packaging to Alioth Git[2] which I consider saver for manually
created source tarballs.

I admit that I'm a bit scared by those two ctypes patches which
seem to be ignored by upstream and always need re-adjustment for
new upstream versions.

Anywway, my try to salvage the package ended up when I tried to
install what results from building [2] in a chroot:



  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 36
    print 'You should add %r to PATH environment variable and reboot.' % (os.path.dirname (lib))
                                                                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/optparse_gui.py", line 201
    print(msg, file=sys.stderr)
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


So if anybody in the Python team would like to take over from here on
I'd be really happy.  Otherwise I consider either orphaning the package
or ask ftpmaster for removal.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pylibtiff
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/pylibtiff.git

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