Bug#950369: buster-pu: package python-internetarchive/1.8.1-1

[Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>]

On 2020-01-31 20:35:55, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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.

I never quite remember the workflow here, but I've uploaded the package
to buster, so feel free to do whatever needs to happen to this bug
now. :)

Thanks!

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