Bug#849477: ITP: python-pydap -- a Python library implementing the Data Access Protocol

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 11:12 -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Ghislain Antony Vaillant
> <ghisvail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > * Package name    : python-pydap
> >   Version         : 3.2.0
> >   Upstream Author : Roberto De Almeida <roberto@dealmeida.net>
> > * URL             : http://www.pydap.org/
> 
> 
> how does it compare to https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pydap.html?

We had a discussion a while back on the DPMT mailing-list [1].
Basically, pydap 3.x is a non-backward compatible rewrite of pydap 2.x.

Both can be installed side by side since they use different namespaces
(dap for pydap 2.x, pydap for pydap 3.x). Hence the introduction of a
new source package to avoid difficult upgrades for pydap 2.x rdepends.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2016/01/msg00139.html

Ghis