Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name : xkcd
* Version : 2.3.1
* Upstream Author : Ben Rosser
* URL : https://pythonhosted.org/xkcd/
* License : MIT
Description : Python2 library for accessing xkcd.com.

This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics from the
xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe. It is NOT endorsed or made by him, it’s an
entirely independent project.
.
It makes use of the JSON interface to Randall’s site to retrieve comic data.
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One can create comic objects manually using Comic(number), or can use the helper
functions provided- getLatestComic(), getRandomComic(), and getComic()- to do
this. Once you have a Comic object, you can access data from it using various
provided methods.
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Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Alexandre


>I was ready to complain that at this point a new python2 only shouldn't be
>packaged anymore; but this library already  works with python3 too ;-)
>
>Why not make this a future-proof Python3-only package ?


of course I build both python2 and python3, this is a case when I opened a ITP
after doing the packaging, so I did copy from control file (lazy me)


>by the way, provided URL never link to the source 
>location:>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xkcd/
>
>Greets,


it is correct in the copyright file :)

cheers,

G.

Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Alexandre Detiste]

2015-09-10 12:05 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna
:
> * Package name : xkcd
> * Version : 2.3.1
> * Upstream Author : Ben Rosser
> * URL : https://pythonhosted.org/xkcd/
> * License : MIT
> Description : Python2 library for accessing xkcd.com.

Hi,

I was ready to complain that at this point a new python2 only shouldn't be
packaged anymore; but this library already  works with python3 too ;-)

Why not make this a future-proof Python3-only package ?

by the way, provided URL never link to the source location:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xkcd/

Greets,

Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:05:17AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Description : Python2 library for accessing xkcd.com.

Is there no Python 3 equivalent available?

See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg5.html

Python 2 will be end-of-life in 2020.

Thanks,
Iain.

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Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Ben!


>Why is this useful to do programmatically?


having access to the website by code is useful to know when some new images are 
available, moreover
is nice to have for the "alt" stuff, not visible from Android (e.g.) and from 
some older browsers.

the API has some *nice* additions, I thought it was worth a packaging


>Then, isn't its name a trademark infringement?


well, IANAL, but on the xkcd website there is no trademark mentioning, and all 
the work is CC licensed.
(not that we should care about the images, since they are not packaged in any 
way)

cheers,

G.

Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 10:05 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name : xkcd
> * Version : 2.3.1
> * Upstream Author : Ben Rosser
> * URL : https://pythonhosted.org/xkcd/
> * License : MIT
> Description : Python2 library for accessing xkcd.com.
> 
> This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics from the
> xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe.

Why is this useful to do programmatically?

> It is NOT endorsed or made by him, it’s an entirely independent project.

[...]

Then, isn't its name a trademark infringement?

Ben.

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Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 13:32 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Ben!
> 
> 
> > Why is this useful to do programmatically?
> 
> 
> having access to the website by code is useful to know when some new images 
> are available, moreover
> is nice to have for the "alt" stuff, not visible from Android (e.g.) and from 
> some older browsers.

Any feed reader can do that for you.

> the API has some *nice* additions, I thought it was worth a packaging
>
> > Then, isn't its name a trademark infringement?
> 
> 
> well, IANAL, but on the xkcd website there is no trademark mentioning, and 
> all the work is CC licensed.
> (not that we should care about the images, since they are not packaged in any 
> way)

You're confusing copyright with trademarks.

Ben.

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