Hi Ghis, thanks for working on the package! Even it is abandoned by upstream, we have to support it in Debian, because it has reverse-dependency.
Feel free to ping me, if one need the package sponsoring. Best regards Anton 2016-09-22 9:33 GMT+02:00 Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com>: > I have had a look at updating the package to the newest upstream > release and fixing this FTBFS. However, I have got strong concerns as > to whether it is worth keeping this package maintained in the archive: > > - The latest release on PyPI [1] is busted (missing files). The issue > was reported [2] but never addressed since. > > - Latest activity on the upstream repository is from 2013. By now, I > expected upstream would have fixed the PyPI tarball, at least. > > - No Python 3 support. A manual call to 2to3 on the Python sources > allows the build process to run, but fails at the compilation stage. > > [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysparse > [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/pysparse/mailman/message/33117282/ > > Best regards, > Ghis