[Python-modules-team] Bug#852363: inputstream is "private" since html5lib 1.0b9

[W. Martin Borgert]

On 2017-02-07 23:27, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> do you still plan to update this package? let me know if i can help
> you in anyway

My interest in pisa/xhtml2pdf is trac-wikiprint, a plugin to
create "PDF books" from multiple Trac wikipages. It was working
fine some years back, but broke with time. I'm not optimistic
about fixing this for stretch.

> looking further into this, it turns out pisa has been totally
> deprecated[1] in favor or xhtml2pdf[2] so i think the right way
> forward is: a workaround to fix it for stretch, and package [2] and
> get rid of pisa for buster

Yes. I like to package xhtml2pdf as a new package, replacing
pisa. I'm not sure, how exactly, because xhtml2pdf is barely
useful for other use cases. I could not render any "serious" web
page with 0.1b2. I will probably leave out the xhtml2pdf command
line utility, because it will lead only to users frustration.