New upstream version of python-xlwt
- To: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org, Andreas Noteng <andreas@noteng.no>, kretcheu@gmail.com, debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, umlaeute@debian.org
- Subject: New upstream version of python-xlwt
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:24:17 +0200
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Hi,
ccing maintainers of reverse dependencies of python-xlwt. We
switched to a new upstream version (0.7.5 -> 1.3.0) so you might
want to check that your packages are still working with this new
version (rows, python-pandas,
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> I've found out that antlr.py is embedded, and still in use in this
> upstream release. So I added a patch to remove it from upstream.
This change was not good. The embedded antlr.py is patched
for xlwt. See https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/issues/73
This change thus got reverted and I uploaded the resulting package
with a few more cleanups.
> However, the package was using git-dpm. As always, importing a new
> release with git-dpm is a nightmare. Therefore, before doing it, I
> simply removed all patches (as I thought no patch was needed). Now,
> what's the way to make it again so that the package uses git-dpm? Is it
> still needed these days, or is it ok to not do it in the team?
AFAIK it's OK to not use git-dpm. However it seems that the team
documentation would need an update... also since we haven't documented
the switch to salsa either.
Cheers,
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