Re: Status of pythondialog in Debian

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:

> Please note that this is not a team-maintained package.  We could do a
> non-maintainer upload of it, but I'd rather see either 1) Adam, the current
> maintainer CC'd here, update the package, or 2) have Adam move the package to
> the Debian Python team, where we could collectively maintain it going
> forward.

As Mathias pointed out, the package in Debian has been abandoned for a
long time...

> That's excellent, thanks, and should help us (either the team or Adam) update
> the package.  Would you be able to file a bug on the package in Debian, and
> attach a diff (debdiff) of your packaging changes?
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=python-dialog

I'm not sure it is the way to go: current pythondialog versions only
support Python 3, although I made a backport of version 3.0.1 to
Python 2 (<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python2-pythondialog>). The
implication is that python-dialog (currently in Debian) and
python3-dialog (as mentioned in my previous message) are different
source packages, built from different upstream tarballs. My packaging
isn't based on python-dialog either, but loosely on enum34 and the
suggestions from the Debian wiki. Even though many people are still
using Python 2, making substantial efforts to support it as well as
Python 3 is not a good use of resources IMHO...

Thanks

-- 
Florent