[Python-modules-team] Bug#749321: python-pypdf: Migrate from pyPdf to PyPDF2

[Amr Ibrahim]

Package: python-pypdf
Version: 1.13-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

pyPdf is dead upstream http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ and is superseded by PyPDF2 https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2. Would you consider migrating to PyPDF2?

FAQ: http://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/FAQ.html
PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyPDF2
GitHub: https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2
Homepage: http://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/

Here is part of PyPDF2 FAQ:

Q1- How is PyPDF2 related to pyPdf?
A1- As the PyPDF2 home page explains, PyPDF2 is a fork from the no-longer-maintained pyPdf approved by the latter's founder.

Q2- I'm a long-time pyPdf user. How hard is migration to PyPDF2?
A2- Migration to PyPDF2 from pyPdf should be utterly transparent. If anything gets in your way, we want to know. Your Python code needn't change at all, unless you choose to program in a customized location for the PyPDF2 module. In particular, ...


Thanks a lot,

Amr


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Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers trusty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-pypdf depends on:
ii  python          2.7.5-5ubuntu3
ii  python-support  1.0.15

python-pypdf recommends no packages.

python-pypdf suggests no packages.

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