Bug#564424: ITP: pypibrowser -- graphical interface for browsing the Python Package Index

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:18 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : pypibrowser
>   Version         : 1.5
>   Upstream Author : David Boddie <david@boddie.org.uk>
> * URL             : http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/PyPI-Browser/
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : graphical interface for browsing the Python Package Index
> 
>  PyPI Browser is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for browsing the
>  contents of the Python Package Index (PyPI).

>  It uses the XML-RPC interface exposed by the Package Index server to retrieve
>  information about the available packages.
I suggest:
"It queries the online Package Index server to retrieve information
about the available packages."

>  It aims to make it easier for users to find and download useful Python
>  software from a central repository. It provides facilities for searching
>  the package index, can display information about individual packages,
>  allows packages to be marked so that they can be downloaded together, and
>  records information about existing packages so that new ones can be
>  highlighted.

Like for stdeb (see #564562), I suggest to add a notice in the
description that the recommended way to install python module is to use
a Debian package.

Franklin