Bug#506861: xz support for python-debian

[John Wright]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:58:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:17:14PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> > Neil: your simple patch stops debfile from crashing when it sees xz
> > compressed packages but doesn't permit debfile to work with these
> > files. A patch for this has now existed in the bts for a while now.
> 
> Ack.
> 
> > I've been very much hoping that someone would look over this patch and
> > provide some feedback on it and/or merge it. Perhaps, at this stage,
> > we should just upload it and deal with any bugs.
> > 
> > Perhaps I've not made it clear enough in the past, but I am quite
> > willing to help out with python-debian maintenance. I would, however,
> > be happier if there were some code review of contributions.
> 
> Stuart, thanks a lot for both your patch and your willingness to help
> with python-debian maintenance. For one thing, I very much welcome your
> help and I encourage you to add yourself to the Uploaders field and
> proceed with an upload (see below for a review of your xz patch).
> 
> I can't speak for the python-debian team as a whole but, in fact, I
> think we've been *lacking* such a team for the past few years. I'm still
> on this list and follow it, but I don't expect to be able to be an
> active maintainer for python-debian in the near future.  The most active
> person over the past few years here has probably been John Wright, which
> I'm now Cc:-ing explicitly. John, if you have objections to Stuart
> adding himself to the Uploaders please say so.

Stuart, please feel free to add yourself to Uploaders.  I haven't had
much time, unfortunately, for Debian in general recently, but I would
love to see python-debian continue to work with files from recent Debian
versions.  I will try be more on top of python-debian reviews, at the
least.  If you want another pair of eyes on this patch, I can look at it
later this week (or weekend), but I trust Zack's judgement.

> Separately, and barring objections from John, please ping me on IRC in a
> few days and I'll add you to the alioth group so that you can push to
> the Git repo.
> 
> And many thanks for not giving up on us! :-)

Ditto.

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>
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