On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 10:00:49AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Julian Gilbey <j...@debian.org> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.org, > debian-python@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : rapidfuzz > Version : 2.6.1 > Upstream Author : Max Bachmann <p...@maxbachmann.de> > * URL : https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: Python > Description : rapid fuzzy string matching > > RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which > uses the string similarity calculations from > [FuzzyWuzzy](https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy). However there > are a couple of aspects that set RapidFuzz apart from FuzzyWuzzy: > 1) It is MIT licensed so it can be used whichever License you might want to > choose for your project, while you're forced to adopt the GPL license when > using FuzzyWuzzy > 2) It provides many string_metrics like hamming or jaro_winkler, which are > not included in FuzzyWuzzy > 3) It is mostly written in C++ and on top of this comes with a lot of > Algorithmic improvements to make string matching even faster, while still > providing the same results. For detailed benchmarks check the > [documentation](https://maxbachmann.github.io/RapidFuzz/fuzz.html) > 4) Fixes multiple bugs in the `partial_ratio` implementation > > This is a dependency of the latest upstream release of > python3-textdistance. > > There are also two C++ libraries contained within this package, > managed as separate GitHub subrepositories. One is rapidfuzz-cpp, and > I am not sure whether to bundle this as a single package or whether to > package this independently. The other is taskflow > (https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow)), a C++ header-only package; I > think this should probably be packaged separately. > > This package will be maintained within the Python Packaging Team.
I should have added: this package depends on Cython >= 3.0.0a7, so this cannot be packaged until we have the new version of Cython available. The same applies for the JaroWinkler package. Julian
