Bug#950369: buster-pu: package python-internetarchive/1.8.1-1
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 15:13 -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> The version of "internetarchive" in Debian has some serious
> scalability and reliability issues. In particular, it has trouble
> handling more than 1024 files (#950289) but upstream also made a few
> other changes which we might want to merge in. We're shipping a
> modified version of 1.8.1 in buster, and upstream has released a few
> releases up to 1.8.5 and 1.9.0 since then, the latter of which is in
> Debian.
>
> I just uploaded a patch for #950289 to unstable. I'm hoping this
> patch could also be shipped to stable, but I am wondering if we
> wouldn't be better off syncing the entire package with upstream, to
> 1.8.5 or maybe even what will become 1.9.1 once they ship the fix for
> #950289 upstream.
The window for getting updates into 10.3 closes this weekend, so let's
go with the minimal fix for now and we can revisit whether larger
updates make sense later; thanks.
Regards,
Adam
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