Bug#698258: ITP: python-charade -- universal encoding detector for Python 2 and Python 3
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Daniele Tricoli <eriol@mornie.org> wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> sorry for this late response I was a bit busy this month.
No worries
>> 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.
I was only concerned because, if I remember correctly, Debian has a
python-requests package. As someone who doesn't use Debian (or Ubuntu)
I was concerned (as a maintainer of requests) that the vendored
dependencies were being stripped and other Debian packages used in
their stead.
>> 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!
Yeah, frankly, I have been very busy since sending that email and
finding the information needed to add those character sets has not
been... simple. Hopefully I will finish my degree uneventfully and
find more time afterward.
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