Hi, I'm no longer using python-xml[1] for my daily development, and as a consequence, I feel I'm not doing as good a job as I should on the python-xml package. I'm therefore considering passing maintenance to someone else, or co-maintaining the package. The packaging itself is pretty straightforward, but * upstream is not very active * some long lasting bugs[2] are fixed in upstream cvs, but the fix might break other packages depending on the bug, so I'm a bit reluctant to add a patch which could lead to debian shipping a pyxml-0.8.4 package which would behave differently from other distributions * xbel is part of the debian package, but is essentially unmaintained by upstream (not a problem for the DTD, but one for xbel-utils scripts, which I don't use and have been the only one to change in upstream CVS during the past years). Additionnally, xbel has been moved to it's own separate project [3], so maybe it makes sense to move it to its own source package. I'm not sure how this should be done, debian-wise. Is anybody interested in maintaining the package? [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-xml.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=python-xml [3] http://xbel.sourceforge.net/ -- Alexandre Fayolle
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