Bug#721598: ITP: python-vcs -- Various version control systems management abstraction layer

[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:35:06PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Jelmer,
> 
> On Mo 02 Sep 2013 21:08:50 CEST Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:36:49AM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> >>Package: wnpp
> >>Severity: wishlist
> >>Owner: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
> >>
> >>* Package name    : python-vcs
> >>  Version         : 0.4.0
> >>  Upstream Author : Marcin Ku??mi??ski
> >><https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/issues>
> >>* URL             : https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/
> >>* License         : Expat
> >>  Programming Lang: Python
> >>  Description     : Various version control systems management
> >>abstraction layer
> >>
> >> Python vcs is an abstraction layer on top of various
> >>(Mercurial, Git, as extra
> >> backends: SVN, Bazaar) version control systems. It is designed as a
> >> feature-rich Python library with a clear API Reference.
> >> .
> >> Features
> >>    - Common API for SCM backends
> >>    - Fetching repositories data lazily
> >>    - Simple caching mechanism so we don???t hit repo too often
> >>    - In-memory commits API
> >>    - Command-line interface
> >> .
> >> Incoming
> >>    - Full working directories support
> >>    - Extra backends: Subversion, Bazaar
> >Where are the extra backends? I don't see them in the linked
> >upstream source code.
> 
> I cannot tell you where the backends yet are. Currently, I am
> struggling with a licensing issue in vcs that you may be able to
> solve.
> 
> For further info on this see this issue report on github:
> https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/issues/118

It looks like Marcin already followed up to this. Dulwich and that file are
GPLv2 or later. 

Cheers,

Jelmer