New upstream version of python-xlwt

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

ccing maintainers of reverse dependencies of python-xlwt. We
switched to a new upstream version (0.7.5 -> 1.3.0) so you might
want to check that your packages are still working with this new
version (rows, python-pandas,

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> I've found out that antlr.py is embedded, and still in use in this
> upstream release. So I added a patch to remove it from upstream.

This change was not good. The embedded antlr.py is patched 
for xlwt. See https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/issues/73

This change thus got reverted and I uploaded the resulting package
with a few more cleanups.

> However, the package was using git-dpm. As always, importing a new
> release with git-dpm is a nightmare. Therefore, before doing it, I
> simply removed all patches (as I thought no patch was needed). Now,
> what's the way to make it again so that the package uses git-dpm? Is it
> still needed these days, or is it ok to not do it in the team?

AFAIK it's OK to not use git-dpm. However it seems that the team
documentation would need an update... also since we haven't documented
the switch to salsa either.

Cheers,
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