Hello, Debian has the following package:
Package: python-captcha Source: pycaptcha Version: 0.4-1 Installed-Size: 788 Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team < python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: python2.6 | python2.7, python (>= 2.6.6-7~), python (<< 2.8), python-imaging (>= 1.1.5), ttf-bitstream-vera Description-en: collection of Python modules implementing CAPTCHAs This package contains Python modules to add some captcha in an application to recognize a human versus a robot. The package generates an image based on a dictionary. Homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyCAPTCHA/0.4 Description-md5: 2d19869b66fbe12deefdf153202fb4b5 Tag: devel::lang:python, implemented-in::python, role::shared-lib Section: python Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/p/pycaptcha/python-captcha_0.4-1_all.deb Size: 385570 MD5sum: 4b080c1bb24da0ab0dff77fb2158fae0 SHA1: 06eca771b4049072dadd97fbdd6f443b0be6c405 SHA256: b85cb47d172a1070ec24e73b063933e134373c1dfcb6c61fe6f5da4d22cf65cc According to that homepage, the last release was 2006, so it appears to have been abandoned upstream. I can't find documentation for it. It provides the python module name "Captcha" I have a project that requires django-simple-captcha, from: https://github.com/mbi/django-simple-captcha http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-simple-captcha https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-simple-captcha/0.4.2 It provides the python module name "captcha", comes with documentation, and has recent commits. Technically speaking, the module names don't conflict, this is only because of the case of the first character is different, which IMHO isn't sufficient. Also policy would require me to package django-simple-captcha as python-captcha, which would clash. I filed an ITP for django-simple-captcha before I realized the clash: http://bugs.debian.org/746632 I considered porting my application to use python-captcha, however as that appears to be the inferior library, don't think I want to do that. What is the solution? I can think of: * Get upstream to rename django-simple-captcha. Very hard to justify when development of the conflicting package is dead. * Remove python-captcha from Debian. Nothing appears to depend on it in the Debian archive. Any thoughts? Thanks -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>
