Hello Ian, sorry for this late response. [CCing Piotr to get his attention] On Wednesday 20 March 2013 03:41:19 Ian Cordasco wrote: > 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. Yes, Debian has a python-requests package: I'm the maintainer of the package, but I'm also a user of python-requests; So I want it in the best shape ;) I understand your concern, and I want to make clear why, as the maintainer of python-requests I decided to use chardet instead of charade: after doing a diff between charade 1.0.1 and the version of chardet we have in Debian there were almost no difference. My plan was to get charade into Debian before uploading a new version of requests, but yesterday Thomas Goirand uploaded requests 1.2.0: I discovered looking at commit log on #debian-python :) As you can understand by this ITP, I'm in favor of having charade in Debian and this is my advocacy: 1) charade has an active upstream (which is very kind and supportive) :) 2) charade fix long standing bugs of chardet 3) charade is used by requests, a very popular library Ian, can you add something more? I think point 1 and 2 are enough to have charade in Debian. I plan to start packaging charade so I will can upload a new revision of requests 1.2.0 that use charade instead of chardet. Piotr, do you have any concerns? Kind regards, -- Daniele Tricoli 'Eriol' http://mornie.org
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