Hi, the former maintainer of pylibtiff inside Debian Med team Mathieu Malaterre does not care for the package any more and thus I tried my luck to salvage it. I have no personal interest in this package nor does it have any rdepends. There is no direct connection to the Debian Med topic but since there are some users according to popcon[1] it might be worth saving.
Thus I fetched the latest upstream commit from Github and moved the packaging to Alioth Git[2] which I consider saver for manually created source tarballs. I admit that I'm a bit scared by those two ctypes patches which seem to be ignored by upstream and always need re-adjustment for new upstream versions. Anywway, my try to salvage the package ended up when I tried to install what results from building [2] in a chroot: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 36 print 'You should add %r to PATH environment variable and reboot.' % (os.path.dirname (lib)) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/optparse_gui.py", line 201 print(msg, file=sys.stderr) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax So if anybody in the Python team would like to take over from here on I'd be really happy. Otherwise I consider either orphaning the package or ask ftpmaster for removal. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pylibtiff [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/pylibtiff.git -- http://fam-tille.de