Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the python-xml[1] package.
The package description is: The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. . The package currently contains: . * XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). * SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * Various utility modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example programs (various people) Reverse dependencies include fonttools, gdeskcal, gdesklets, imgseek, memaid-pyqt, python-davlib, qm, revelation, rubrica, zope. I'm no longer using python-xml for my daily development, and as a consequence, I feel I'm not doing as good a job as I should on the python-xml package. I'm therefore considering passing maintenance to someone else, or co-maintaining the package. The packaging itself is pretty straightforward, but * upstream is not very active * some long lasting bugs[2] are fixed in upstream cvs, but the fix might break other packages depending on the bug, so I'm a bit reluctant to add a patch which could lead to debian shipping a pyxml-0.8.4 package which would behave differently from other distributions * xbel is part of the debian package, but is essentially unmaintained by upstream (not a problem for the DTD, but one for xbel-utils scripts, which I don't use and have been the only one to change in upstream CVS during the past years). Additionnally, xbel has been moved to it's own separate project[3], so maybe it makes sense to move it to its own source package. I'm not sure how this should be done, debian-wise. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-xml.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=python-xml [3] http://xbel.sourceforge.net/ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]