Bug#972790: ITP: rfc6555 -- Happy Eyeballs Algorithm described in RFC 6555 using Python

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 7:19 PM Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Sudip Mukherjee dijo [Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 06:25:26PM +0100]:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
> >
> > * Package name    : rfc6555
> >   Version         :
> >   Upstream Author : Seth Michael Larson <sethmichaellarson@protonmail.com>
> > * URL             : https://github.com/sethmlarson/rfc6555
> > (...)
> > The new offlineimap3 (Python3 fork of offlineimap) is using this rfc6555.
> > There has been no official release yet and I have mailed upstream askig
> > about it.
> > I can maintain it under the umbrella of Python team.
>
> I understand you are packaging something for which the author didn't
> manage to choose a name, but you are _not_ packaging RFC 6555 (and you
> cannot even include it, because RFCs are nonmodifiable by their
> license and thus non-free in nature). Please help choose a name;
> ideally, you can communicate with the author, and try to find a
> suitable, meaningful human name for this!

Thanks for pointing that out. Looking at "python-rfc3986" I guess I
can change the package name of this one to "python-rfc6555".
I will also open mail upstream about choosing a suitable name.


-- 
Regards
Sudip