[Python-modules-team] Prepared new version of python-mecab with Python 3 support

[TANIGUCHI Takaki]

Hi,

We are talking with mecab Maintainer about to generate Mecab language
binding packages from Mecab source package directly. So we will not
add python3-mecab source package, however add python3-mecab binary
with mecab package. Please wait for a short time.


>>>>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:45:18 -0500
>>>>> zackw at panix.com(Zack Weinberg)  said:
> 
> I am, kinda by accident, one of the maintainers of the PyPI package
> 'mecab-python3' (https://pypi.org/project/mecab-python3/) which
> provides an identical API to the existing Debian package
> 'python-mecab' (it's based ultimately on the same SWIG interface
> definition written by MeCab upstream), but, because it ships that SWIG
> interface definition instead of code generated from it, it actually
> supports Python 3.
> 
> I have a need for Debian-packaged Python 3 bindings for MeCab for my
> day job, and so I have taken the liberty of preparing an update of
> python-mecab based on this PyPI package.  You can find a complete set
> of source and binary packages at
> https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/debian/ .
> 
> I am not a Debian developer or maintainer, and don't particularly want
> to be one, but if one of you would like to check my work and upload
> these packages, with any changes you feel are appropriate, to the
> official archive, I would appreciate it.
> 
> (This would close bug #719466 , but I may have forgotten to say so in
> the changelog, sorry about that.)
> 
> zw
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