Bug#743950: RFS: python-ebooklib/0.15-2 [ITP] -- Python library for EPUB support

[Daniel James <daniel@64studio.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

  Dear mentors,

  I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-ebooklib":

 * Package name    : python-ebooklib
   Version         : 0.15-2
   Upstream Author : Aleksandar Erkalovic, Borko Jandras
 * URL             : https://github.com/aerkalov/ebooklib/
 * License         : GNU AGPL v3
   Section         : python

  It builds these binary packages:

  python-ebooklib - Python 2 E-book library for handling
EPUB2/EPUB3/Kindle formats

  python3-ebooklib - Python 3 E-book library for handling
EPUB2/EPUB3/Kindle formats

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

  http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-ebooklib

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-ebooklib/python-ebooklib_0.15-2.dsc

EbookLib is capable of reading and writing EPUB files (Kindle support is
under development, currently only reading Kindle format works). It has
support for covers, table of contents, spine, guide, metadata and more.
EbookLib works with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3.

Debian already has an EPUB library:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libepub0

but that library is written in C. The aim of packaging EbookLib is to
provide a new dependency in Debian for the Python program 'Booktype
2.0', a CMS for creating print and ebooks to be released later this year:

https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype/tree/2.0

Booktype is also released under the GNU AGPL, and my intention is to
package it once this dependency can be satisfied in Debian.

The source package name python-ebooklib is not currently used by Debian,
as far as I can tell.

I am not a Debian Developer so if a DD is interested in sponsoring this
package, please contact me.

Cheers!

Daniel