Hi, On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:20:05 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Today I try to install a software - youdao dict. > First I try it in vmware machine: Linuxmint and Ubuntu. It can succeed! > But when I do it in Debian , it fails ; And the reason is the lost of > python3-xlib. > So I search in the web page of Debian: this package is not contained by > Debian Jessie or Squeeze!They only have a package named python-xlib. The > same to Ubuntu , it has. > What happens about this package? Upstream looks dead, and Ubuntu has distro-patched the package [1] to make it support Python 3. I think it will make sense to apply the same patch(es) in Debian as well, to help porting other packages to Python 3. The package is team-maintained, so if Mike (the last uploader, CCed) doesn't mind, I will just upload the Ubuntu changes back into Debian. [1]: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/python-xlib/vivid -- Dmitry Shachnev
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