[Python-modules-team] New upstream release for pyparsing

[Thomas Goirand]

On 05/14/2013 01:54 AM, Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 13.05.2013 19:34, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi Torsten and Kevin,
>>
>> I would like to upload a new version of python-quantumclient, though it
>> needs a new version of python-cliff (eg: >= 1.3), and the latest version
>> of python-cliff (eg: 1.3.3) needs a newer version of python-pyparsing
>> (eg: it needs at least 1.5.7, and current version in the archive is 1.5.6).
>>
>> Could you please consider uploading version 1.5.7, or version 2.0.0 of
>> pyparsing, so that I can to the changes in python-cliff and
>> python-quantumclient?
>>
>> If you can't do that, can I do the work of uploading a new upstream
>> release of pyparsing, inside the Python Module team (eg: using git-svn
>> in my case, since I don't know svn enough...)? If so, could you tell me
>> which part of the upstream package needs to be remove to produce a dfsg
>> orig file? According to your changelog, it's just the docs/*.pdf, right?
>>
> 
> just so you know, an update of pyparsing will probably need a new source
> package as upstream decided to release two versions one for python2.7
> only and one for python 3 with different version numbers.
> You can't really repackage them into one again as you need to keep the
> two different version numbers for packages like matplotlib that check
> the version number.
> One could update the version of the python 2.7 package to the same
> version as py3, but I don't think that is a good idea.

I just need version 1.5.7 (that's my dependency, not version 2...), so I
think I will upload that to Sid right now, then we'll see what to do for
version 2 and renaming, etc.

Is that fine for you?

Cheers,

Thomas