Hey Olly et. al. I'm very sorry about the recent lack of response on this project. I do in fact intend to keep maintaining it, and am hoping to get back to pushing on it again soon. I am very grateful to those that have pushed NMUs to keep the package in Debian.
jamie. On Tue, Sep 22 2026, Olly Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 11:49:55 +1300 Olly Betts <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 07, 2026 at 10:30:18AM +1300, Olly Betts wrote: >> > The replacement is xapian.NumberRangeProcessor which will work in 1.4.x >> > too. >> >> I've now successfully test built xapers using python3-xapian from >> experimental with this patch applied. > > It's been more than 6 months without a response. > > I'm intending to NMU this patch soon - the patched version will still > work with Xapian 1.4.x but will also be ready for the xapian2 > transition. > > If you'd prefer to make a maintainer upload with the patch, please let > me know. > >> While the build succeeded, there were two test failures, but these >> seem to unrelated to Xapian and are due to the `pipes` module being >> removed in Python 3.13 (as noted at >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/pipes.html) > > These have since been fixed by NMUs. > > Cheers, > Olly
