[Python-apps-team] Bug#966611: pelican: New upstream version available

[passiongnulinux at gmail.com]

Package: pelican
Version: 4.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist

The version packaged that is within unstable, testing and stable is
4.0.1, however upstream has, at this time, generated a tarball for
4.5.4.

The different versions which followed the one available in Debian
(Version: 4.0.1 + dfsg-1) correct bugs, flaws, even flaws: 

> Pelican 4.1
> 
> @justinmayer justinmayer released this on 14 Jul 2019 · 288 commits
> to master since this release
> 
>     Live browser reload upon changed files (provided via Invoke task)
>     Add pyproject.toml, managed by Poetry
>     Support for invoking python -m pelican
>     Add relative source path attribute to content
>     Allow directories in EXTRA_PATH_METADATA
>     Add all_articles variable to period pages (for recent posts
> functionality)
>     Improve debug mode output
>     Remove blank or duplicate summaries from Atom feed
>     Fix bugs in pagination, pelican-import, pelican-quickstart, and
> feed importer
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.1.1
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 23 Aug 2019 · 273 commits to master
> since this release
> 
>     Add AutoPub to auto-publish releases on PR merge
>     Add CSS classes for reStructuredText figures
>     Pass argv to Pelican main entrypoint
>     Set default content status to a blank string rather than None
> 
> 8
> 
> Pelican 4.1.2
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 23 Sep 2019 · 265 commits to master
> since this release
> 
> Fix pelican.settings.load_source to avoid caching issues - PR #2621
> 
> 
>            
> Pelican 4.1.3
>             
> Fix quick-start docs regarding pelican --listen
> Set default listen address to 127.0.0.1
> Add extra/optional Markdown dependency to setup.py
> Use correct SSH port syntax for rsync in tasks.py
> Place all deprecated settings handling together
> Add related project URLs for display on PyPI
> Skip some tests on Windows that can't pass due to filesystem
> differences
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.2.0
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 17 Oct 2019 · 238 commits to master
> since this release
> 
>     Support inline SVGs; don't treat titles in SVGs as HTML titles
>     Add category to feeds (in addition to tags)
>     Improve content metadata field docs
>     Add docs for including other Markdown/reST files in content
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.5.0
> 
> @justinmayer justinmayer released this on 20 Aug 2020 · 42 commits to
> master since this release
> 
>     List registered plugins via pelican-plugins command
>     Override settings via -e / --extra-settings CLI option flags
>     Add settings for custom Jinja globals and tests
>     Customize article summary ellipsis via SUMMARY_END_SUFFIX setting
>     Customize Typogrify dash handling via new TYPOGRIFY_DASHES
> setting
>     Support Unicode when generating slugs
>     Support Asciidoc .adoc file generation in Pelican importer
>     Improve user experience when pelican --listen web server is quit
>     Improve Invoke tasks template
>     Include tests in source distributions
>     Switch CI from Travis to GitHub Actions
>     Remove support for Python 2.7
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.5.1
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 2 Nov 2020 · 23 commits to master
> since this release
> 
>     Refactor intra-site link discovery in order to match more
> permissively #2646
>     Fix plugins running twice in auto-reload mode #2817
>     Add notice to use from pelican import signals instead of import
> pelican.signals #2805
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.5.3
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 1 Dec 2020 · 14 commits to master
> since this release
> 
> Fix a mistake made in PR #2821
> Assets 4
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.5.2
> 
> @botpub botpub released this on 22 Nov 2020 · 16 commits to master
> since this release
> 
> Improve logging of generators and writer loaders
> 
> 
> Pelican 4.5.4
> 
> @botpub botpub released this 24 days ago · 12 commits to master since
> this release
> 
> Replace plugin definitions in settings with string representations
> after registering, so they can be cached correctly (#2828).


It would be interesting to have this version (at least a more recent
version) of this engine available. 

Kind regards, Seb.