Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#756872: RM: gnupginterface -- ROM; No human maintainer left, dead upstream
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
> On Aug 02, 2014, at 06:23 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
>>If someone on the team is interested in this package staying in Debian and
>>willing to be added to uploaders, please speak up. I don't mind doing the
>>work to modernize the packaging, but don't care to be responsible for it long
>>term.
>
> I personally don't think it's worth spending time on gnupginterface. We have
> the PyPI package python-gnupg in the archive and its upstream seems relatively
> active. I don't think we have gnupg 1.3.1 (top PyPI hit for "gnupg") and that
> has an even more recent PyPI release. I haven't looked at the latter, but I
> use the former in several projects, including Python 3 projects.
FWIW, that 1.3.1 version is a fork of original python-gnupg.
According to Github repo description [1], it is "a modified version of
python-gnupg, including security patches, extensive documentation, and
extra features".
[1] https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg
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Dmitry Shachnev
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