Re: RFS: DPMT: python-hl7 0.2.0
Andreas,
Thanks for catching that lintian message. I committed a fix.
In regards to the XML file licensing--it is currently a non-issue in
this release, since that code as not been fully merged upstream. We
will address any issues upstream before releasing a new version of
python-hl7.
Thank you again!
John
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:12:46AM -0500, John Paulett wrote:
>> I am the upstream maintainer of python-hl7 [1] and have packaged it
>> for Debian. I was hoping that a DD may be able to review the package
>> with me and potentially sponsor the package [2]. I have worked with
>> the DPMT before to maintain the jsonpickle package.
>
> I had a look at your package (because it is relevant for Debian Med) and
> as I told you before if you just have packages in python-modules team it
> is perfectly fine to stay in this Vcs if you prefer to do so.
>
>> The package is lintian clean and I have built it in a sid pbuilder environment.
>
> I'm just using lintian -I -i which results in a
>
> I: python-hl7: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
>
> which can be fixed with a simple
>
> $ svn diff
> Index: control
> ===================================================================
> --- control (revision 17834)
> +++ control (working copy)
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
> Provides: ${python:Provides}
> -Description: Python library for parsing HL7 messages.
> +Description: Python library for parsing HL7 messages
> HL7 is a communication protocol and message format for health care data.
> It is the de-facto standard for transmitting data between clinical
> information systems and between clinical devices. The version 2.x series,
>
>
> ... I just noticed that I have no commit permissions in python-modules.
> If some kind soul of this team would ask alioth admins to grant commit
> permissions for DDs this could simplify things for inter-team
> cooperation.
>
>> Since this is a healthcare-related library, it could potentially fit
>> under the Debian Med team, but due to the fact that the library is
>> just a simple Python module and my existing familiarity with the the
>> DPMT policies, I thought I would ask here first.
>
> As I said: Whatever you prefer is fine.
>
> Besides the nitpicking with the '.' above I wonder how the issue you
> mentioned on the Debian Med list about licenses of XML files might be.
> I neither have found such files in the code nor did I have seen
> references in debian/copyright. If this is a non-issue I would go
> on sponsering the package.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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