[pkg-gnupg-maint] gpgme 1.7.0~ alpha or beta to debian experimental?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2016-09-25 09:29:31 -0400, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> (The CC list seemed enthusiastic, I'm just replying to the list.)

the cc list covered a lot of ground because the new upstream is actually
consolidating a lot of code.  but your response is just pygpgme, so
thanks for culling the cc list)

> On 2016-09-20 17:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Jonathan, do you want to take over python-gpgme, or should we remove it
>> From debian in favor of upstream's python bindings for gpgme?
>
> Just to clarify, you're talking about dropping the python3-gpgme binary 
> package only? Or the whole pygpgme source package?

I'm talking about the whole pygpgme source package.  GnuPG upstream has
effectively taken it over with the gpgme package.

> I'm happy to change the maintainer field in some future upload, yes. 
> However, upstream isn't very active and there is an RC bug (tests fail) 
> which I have not yet been able to solve alone, which will cause removal 
> from testing in October. I'd appreciate any help with that.

Right, if we upload python bindings from upstream's gpgme source, then i
think we should be able to resolve these bugs.

> (There's also a fork at https://github.com/rshk/pygpgme which seems more 
> up to date, but unfortunately uses the same project name and is mostly a 
> documentation effort.)

yes, we need better documentation -- i'd be happy to see if we can get
GnuPG upstream to merge some of these documentation improvements.  it
would certainly be helpful.

what do you think about having the gpgme1.0 source package just take
over python-gpgme and python3-gpgme binary packages entirely, thereby
dropping the pygpgme source package from debian?

      --dkg
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