Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> writes:
> I've been updating python-docutils to version 0.6. This version
> includes the separate man page and ODT writers that were previously
> packaged by Ben Finney and Michael Schutte, so I've made it
> conflict/provide/replace them, and put their maintainers in the
> Uploaders (I hope you don't mind).
Fine by me. It's quite proper that the ‘docutils-writer-foo’ package
(FSVO ‘foo’) becomes obsolete as the ‘foo’ writer gets merged into the
Docutils core.
> If nobody objects to this arrangement, I'll ask for the separate
> writers to be removed from testing when python-docutils is otherwise
> ready to migrate (it won't migrate normally, since the separate
> writers would become uninstallable). I don't think we need
> transitional packages, since the separate writers have always depended
> on python-docutils anyway.
The ‘rst2odt’ and ‘rst2man’ packages should stay in some form, I think.
That's the end-user package that people are generally looking for when
they want the writer.
Perhaps ‘docutils’ 0.6 should ‘Provides: rst2man, rst2odt’ or the like?
> Unrelated to 0.6, I've been thinking about handing over
> python-docutils to someone else - I hardly use it myself, and I'm not
> really in touch with upstream, so I'd welcome a takeover from anyone
> who can give it more attention than me.
The package metadata (as of ‘docutils’ version 0.5-5) has:
Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Is that sufficient, or were you wanting a different arrangement?
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