Request to join

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 17, 2014, at 02:54 PM, Brian Sutherland wrote:

>> I've just joined this list, and submitted a request to join the Debian
>> Zope/Plone team (hi admins, please approve! :).
>
>Welcome!

Thanks!

>There's also a little known alioth website with information I wrote up a
>long time ago:
>
>    http://pkg-zope.alioth.debian.org/developers.html

Yep, saw that.

>I agree, python-van.pydeb predates and should be replaced by pybuild
>wherever possible. A few years ago, when I looked at pybuild the only
>deficiency it had was properly supporting setuptools extras (see
>zope.component).

I'm not familiar with that problem, so I don't know if it still exists or not.
pybuild is generally awesome these days, and Piotr is pretty responsive to
suggestions.  E.g. he's going to try to make it easier to use for Python 3
packages which don't start with "python3-".

>Removing python-van.pydeb usage has probably been on my TODO list for 3
>years or so...

Excellent!  I'll upload what I have and we'll be one step closer. :)

Cheers,
-Barry