Fwd: Bug#781847: RFS: python-tappy/1.3-1 [ITP] -- Test Anything Protocol (TAP) tools for Python

[Nicolas CANIART <nicolas@caniart.net>]

Dear members of the python modules team,

I would like to see the package below in Debian, and thus would
require a sponsor.
The package is available on mentors.debian.net [1] and the packaging
sources are, for now, available on github [2].

I also have a guestion:

  Upstream ships its changelog as a reStructuredText file which is also included
  in the documentation. Should I put a copy of it in the binary
packages anyway ?
  (It would mean that up to 4 copies of it can get installed on a system !)
  Or could I just mention that it is available in the -doc package,
via a README.Debian ?
  Or something else...

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Nicolas

[1] http://mentors.debian.net/package/tap.py
[2] https://github.com/cans/tappy-pkg

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nicolas CANIART <nicolas@caniart.net>
Date: 2015-04-03 20:50 GMT+02:00
Subject: Bug#781847: RFS: python-tappy/1.3-1 [ITP] -- Test Anything
Protocol (TAP) tools for Python
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>


Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear Debian Mentors,

I have packaged tap.py:

 * Package name    : tap.py
   Version         : 1.3-1
   Upstream Author : Matt LAYMAN
 * URL             : https://github.com/mblayman/tappy
 * License         : BSD-2
   Section         : python

tap.py is a python package that provides:

- a test runner that produces a TAP compliant output;
- facilities to load and parse the output produced by TAP
  compliant test runners.
- Provides a lexer to colorize TAP output with Pygments.

There are a few other python packages that do similar
stuff, but none yet in Debian. Compared to other packages that I could find:

- It is very easy to integrate in your tests, and plays
  well with the standard unittest framework;
- It is actively maintained;
- It is compatible with python from 2.6 to 3.4
  (covers all python versions found in Debian);

I have packaged it because I use it myself and having it
packaged eases its deployment on the development and CI
systems I maintain.
I now hope that it will be useful to someone else...

Packages are available for review on debian mentors and here:

  http://www.caniart.net/debian/NEW/

Relevant ITP bug report can be found here:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781832

Regards,
Nicolas.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)


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