[Freedombox-pkg-team] Debian package cherrypy3: Status!

[Stephan Sürken]

Hi all,

(you are probably getting this as you are Debian maintainer for one of
the packages in [1], declaring a dependency on cherryp3 -- sorry for
the noise)

On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 11:12 +0100, Stephan Sürken wrote:
(...)
> On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 13:50 +1100, Carl Suster wrote:
> (...)
> > cherrypy3, or start from scratch then please do! It's still been on
(...)
> So, if no one else is stepping up, I will eventually look into it and
> try to continue your work.

I eventually actually did ;).

The good news:

We now have an updated package in experimental (8.9.1-1). Please let
me know if there are any severe problems with that new package -- if
not, this will eventually go to unstable.

However (aka bad news):

It seems that 8.9.1 (most recent version is 12.0.1) is the last
upstream that can be packaged in the current manner:

- Since v9, the httpd/wscgiserver part has gone to a separate upstream
'cheroot' [2].
- Later versions also require python packages not in Debian yet [3].

So I guess, for the future, the 1st step would be an ITP for the new
cheroot upstream?

Thx!

Stephan
--
[1] calibre mini-buildd mnemosyne plinth python3-ws4py python-cylc
python-sponge python-springpython python-ws4py salt-api
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheroot
[3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jaraco.classes