Control: tag -1 +pending
Hello Kenneth,
So for Buster release, I've let the epydoc support be enabled as is.
For post Buster, I have dropped the epydoc dependency altogether as it
is not a hard dependency.
Thanks,
Ritesh
On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 19:18 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> Source: python-configshell-fb
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> If possible, please consider moving away from the use of Epydoc in
> your
> package. Epydoc is basically unmaintained upstream. Also, it is
> only
> supported for Python 2, so it will reach its end of life along with
> Python 2 sometime in 2020.
>
> I will continue to maintain the Epydoc packages in Debian as long as
> I
> can, acting as de facto upstream. However, once Python 2 is
> unsupported
> in Debian, I'm not sure that we'll have too many options to keep it
> alive. Migrating it to Python 3 is a fairly large job that I don't
> have the time or the expertise to take on right now.
>
> For my own Python code, I have recently converted to Sphinx using the
> Napolean plugin. At [1], I can offer you (or your upstream) a hack-
> ish
> script to convert common Epydoc markup to Google-style docstrings.
> It's
> not perfect, but it would get you much of the way toward working
> code.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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