[Python-apps-team] Bug#932584: Please help fix pydoctor

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 02:00:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hi, Python folks.
> 
> I think help is needed regarding
> 
>   #932584  python-pydoctor: Epydoc will be removed
> 
> It seems to be languishing rather.  What I don't understand is why
> pydoctor depends on epydoc given that, in the words of the
> Description:
> 
>   [Pydoctor] was written primarily to replace epydoc ...
> 
> I had a quick look through the source but I don't know enough about
> pydoctor to make immediate sense of the results of my grep.  Maybe
> some person who knows more about pydoctor can help ?
> 
> (I'm CCing this to the gbp maintainers because this came to my
> attention due to an autoremoval bug where a package of mine has a
> dependency chain via gbp.)

epydoc only seems to be used for formatting and README.Debian confirms
this:

...and looking at the bug it seems it was already dealt with by dropping
the epydoc dependency. Thanks!
 -- Guido

> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 
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