for a start, you can try to get upstream to reply to this (old) question: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pydap/6A6q-Y6qwtE
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding to d-python, as it seems like a more appropriate place to > discuss this matter. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Maintenance of pydap > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:00:32 +0000 > From: Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> > To: mo...@debian.org > CC: python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Ciao Sandro, > > I recently got involved with the packaging of the HDF compass [1], a > viewer for HDF5 written in Python and using pydap as an install > dependency. > > The version of pydap currently packaged is too old to work with the > compass, first because version 3.x apparently changed the module API > from using `import dap` to `import pydap`. > > I saw the following bug report [2] requesting an update of the package, > but it was not acted upon or acknowledged. I am thereby contacting you > to know whether the package was still actively maintained on your end. > > If you have lost interest in maintaining this package, myself and the > Debian Science Team would be interested in taking over, since both > hdf-compass and pydap are science related. > > Otherwise, please allow me to request an update to this package so I > can carry on with my packaging work on hdf-compass. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812434 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788508 > > Many thanks, > Ghis -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi