[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#808824: python-mpd: homepage 404, package fork?

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle 808824 please consider switching to python-mpd2 for upstream maintenance and Python 3 support

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 at 14:16:51 +0100, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> The homepage for python-mpd seems gone since 2013¹.
> 
> Maybe replacing this package with the github fork² could be a solution?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> ¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20130722193844/http://jatreuman.indefero.net/p/python-mpd/
> ² https://github.com/Mic92/python-mpd2

python-mpd is no longer maintained upstream and only supports Python 2.
There are two Python 3-compatible forks: python-musicpd (not a drop-in
replacement, already in Debian, Py3 only) and python-mpd2 (compatible with
Py2 and Py3, takes over the `import mpd` namespace).

python-mpd2 is apparently mostly compatible
with python-mpd, apart from the API for "stickers"
<https://pythonhosted.org/python-mpd2/topics/porting.html>
and some internal implementation details that
apps might have been relying on but should not
<https://github.com/eonpatapon/mpDris2/issues/59#issuecomment-46751475>.

Please consider switching src:python-mpd to use python-mpd2 as its
upstream, and adding a python3-mpd binary package. The latter will
require a trip through the NEW queue.

(My interest in this is that I maintain mpdris2 in Debian, and this
seems to be its last Python-2-only dependency.)

Regards,
    S