On 17-11-2025 06:11, Mahangu Weerasinghe wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm considering packaging datasette -
> https://github.com/simonw/datasette - for Debian. It's a Python tool
> for exploring and publishing data as an interactive website.
>
> datasette runs as a server, making it well-suited for apt installation.
>
> All dependencies are already in Debian and I've built and installed
> the package locally.
>
> Would this be appropriate for Python Team maintenance? Any objections
> or suggestions before I create the Salsa repository? Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Mahangu
I don't see the need for asking this as this is a python package and the
team is meant for maintaining just for these kind of packages.
If you're already in the Salsa team, you can proceed with the repository
and packaging. No need to ask for the permission explicitly as you were
already given maintainer access just for that.
That said, if you feel that this package is worth being packaged into
Debian and will be actually useful to the users or devs, sure you can go
with that if you feel its fit.
You can file a ITP bug and cc it to the debian-devel mailing list to let
others know that you're packaging it.
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