[Python-modules-team] Bug#500747: Make a python-docutils-contrib package?

[Ben Finney]

On 01-Oct-2008, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> [the experimental Python packages in the sandbox] seems to assume 
> I'm running docutils directly from an upstream checkout.  It looks 
> like the sandbox stuff in the python-docutils .deb.

I have the ‘python-docutils’ package installed, and it doesn't include 
the ‘sandbox’ stuff. Where are you seeing it?

> Perhaps it would be useful for these contrib scripts and modules to 
> be available directly to Debian users, so they (I) can just run 
> "rst2pdf", because it's in /usr/bin and the necessary contrib 
> modules are installed in the appropriate place.

The sandbox appears to be (as implied by the name) an experimental 
area for disparate additions to Docutils. I don't think they'd be a 
good fit all packaged together in one.

An alternative approach would be to package discrete items from the 
sandbox as separate Debian packages. For example, Bug#500753, which is 
my ITP for ‘docutils-writer-manpage’.

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