Bug#876681: RFH: rst2pdf -- ReportLab-based reStructuredText to PDF renderer

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On 24 September 2017 at 22:07, Elena ``of Valhalla''
<valhalla-d@trueelena.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> I request assistance with maintaining the rst2pdf package.
>
> The package description is:
>  The usual way of creating PDF files from reStructuredText is by going through
>  LaTeX. This tool provides an alternative by producing PDF directly using the
>  ReportLab library.
>
> rst2pdf currently only supports python2 (#826908); there was an effort
> from upstream to resume developement and an issue to track supporting
> python3, but apparently they have stopped again in 2016.
>
> Since sooner or later python2 will be dropped from Debian, rst2pdf will
> have to follow, unless somebody cares about it enought to solve the
> situation.
>
> I believe that rst2pdf is currently being used as a build-dependency by
> the following packages, whose maintainers I'm cc-ing:
>
> * apcupsd
> * davical
> * pdal
>
> Right now, I'm not really using this package, so in case there is a need
> for an upstream fork I'm not the right person do do it, but if upstream
> resumes working or there is a new upstream I would be glad to continue
> maintaining the package.

I think I can have a look at it :) I'll let you know later today if
I'm really interested.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew