On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:34:12PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: > arpy is a library for accessing the archive files and reading the > contents. It supports extended long filenames in both GNU and BSD > format. Right now it does not support the symbol tables, but can > ignore them gracefully.
Can you briefly explain the benefit of this library to you or the Debian project? As far as I can see this package mostly provides a very small subset of python-debian. There is one feature I missed in python-debian's arfile implementation, but this isn't present in arpy either: Being able to interpret an archive read from a pipe. For instance the tarfile standard Python module does this for tar files. I see no reason for why a library for ar archives should fail at such a basic task. Maybe give upstream some more time to fix things on their end and get the API right before including it into Debian? Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130403131543.GA27754@localhost
