[Python-modules-team] Bug#876413: [feedparser] new upstream version available

[Antoine Beaupré]

Control: tags -1 +patch

On 2017-12-02 13:08:42, Carl Suster wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> I've updated the packaging of feedparser and pushed 5.2.1-1 to mentors:
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/feedparser/feedparser_5.2.1-1.dsc
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/feedparser
>
>  > Unfortunately, it seems the newer version from the `devel` branch may
>  > be needed for 3.5 support. As it stands now, 5.2.1 works fine in
>  > Python 3.5 here.
>
> 5.2.1 is at least a start, and maybe afterwards we can look at improving 
> the python3 support. However it does seem that the project has been 
> semi-abandoned upstream.
>
> If you're still interested in feedparser, could you perhaps review my 
> package?
>
> A couple of the tests were failing but it wasn't obvious to me why they 
> should ever have passed in the first place. For now I disabled those, 
> and then later in a subsequent version I intend to investigate in more 
> detail while exploring the python3 situation.

Hi!

That looks good to me, let's see if the maintainer picks it up -
otherwise I'll take care of doing a NMU.

Thanks!

A.

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