[Python-modules-team] feedparser: PEP 479 problem

[c.buhtz at posteo.jp]

Hello,

I write this mail to find out how to handle this (for me) special 
situation in the context of Debian - especially stable Debian 10.

Feedparser is a Python package. The debian-current stable version is 
5.2.1-1 and causing erorrs because of PEP 479 which is switched on 
(armed) in Python 3.7.

Feedparser upstream still have fixed it with some lines but not yet 
released.
https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/pull/131

The next planed stable release of Feedparser is a major one 6.0.0.

The question to you is if you would accept 6.0.0 in Debian 10 or is it a 
bit to much modifications?
Whould you prefere to see the fix backported?

Would the debian package maintainer backport this by him/herself and 
create a 5.2.1-2?
Or is it better to have upstream release a 5.2.2 that the debian package 
maintainer can introduce to Debian 10?

Or another way I can not see?

kind
Christian