Bug#354012: RFA: python-xml -- XML tools for Python [dummy package]
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the python-xml[1] package.
The package description is:
The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for
processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled
into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers
and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other
useful modules.
.
The package currently contains:
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* XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius
Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh).
* SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol)
* minidom DOM implementation (Paul Prescod, others)
* 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson)
* Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber)
* Various utility modules and functions (various people)
* Documentation and example programs (various people)
Reverse dependencies include fonttools, gdeskcal, gdesklets, imgseek,
memaid-pyqt, python-davlib, qm, revelation, rubrica, zope.
I'm no longer using python-xml 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.
[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/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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