Bug#924040: ITP: archivebox -- open source self-hosted web archive
On 2019-04-20 11:34:00, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> On 2019-03-08 13:39, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>> There are, as far as I know, no similar tool in Debian right
>> now. There are web crawlers and grabbers, but nothing as comprehensive
>> as this.
>
> Many people use xul-ext-scrapbook, but this means, they are
> stuck with firefox 52.9.0esr-1. I proposed packaging
> webext-scrapbookq (#898545), but TBH it does not seem to be an
> adequate replacement. At first sight, archivebox looks better.
>
>> I'd be happy to co-maintain this or delegate to whoever is interested.
>
> I'm willing to help under the PAPT (or other team) umbrella.
That would be great. I have very little time to work on this right now
but would be available to test a package.
Upstream did get their act together to fix Python packaging to be more
standard, I believe. There are talks of uploading to PyPI and using
setup.py properly, and I think it might be time to give it another try,
for what that's worth.
A.
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