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

[Trent W. Buck]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:15:03PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I think there's a "is not" missing there.

> > 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’.

That would indeed be a better approach; I was assuming that nobody
wanted to go to that much trouble.