Bug#698258: ITP: python-charade -- universal encoding detector for Python 2 and Python 3
Hello Ian,
sorry for this late response I was a bit busy this month.
I'm CC'ing the BTS so your reply can be read by anyone.
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 15:42:51 Ian Cordasco wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of charade and I just noticed your email thread on
> Debian. I just wanted to point out that requests is using charade
> because of how it vendors all of its dependencies.
Many thanks for your reply!
> Trying to have both python-chardet and python3-chardet in the same
> package was causing a lot of problems and overall hair-pulling. charade
> is just a way of supporting both python 2 and python 3 in the same
> package without needing separate versions for separate python versions.
I understand the problem of having both python-chardet and python3-chardet
in the same package but this problem doesn't exist in Debian, so I can't
rely to this to bring python-charade into Debian.
Don't think Debian just don't care about it, but having two similar
projects in the archive demands a cost, so we have to illustrate advantages
clearly.
> It's still being improved and we are adding new encodings as well, so
> your effort to add it to the Debian repositories was not in vein. We
> don't yet have support for those encodings, but I'm planning on working
> on them over the next couple weekends. If you're interested in helping,
> that would be awesome.
Enhancements in python-charade is a very good point to bring it into
Debian, and I undelined your enhancements for this reason.
I don't have a lot of time at the moment but I will try to devote a bit of
time to help!
> Just thought I'd give you the short story as to why requests uses (and
> loves) charade, and give you some more reasons for arguing your case
> in the future.
Many thanks for your words! I will keep an eye to this ITP.
Kind regards,
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Daniele Tricoli 'Eriol'
http://mornie.org
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