-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:27:44AM +1100, John Machin wrote: > On 5/01/2009 09:08, Jan Dittberner wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello, >> >> during my attempt to package xlwt for Debian and coordinating this >> work with other Debian Python Module Team members, the following >> problems regarding licensing information for both pyexcelerator and >> its fork xlwt were discovered: >> >> 1. the included antlr.py is outdated and contains a hint to a file >> LICENSE.txt that is not include in pyexcelerator and xlwt sources >> we can solve this problem in Debian by removing antlr.py from the >> source tarball and depending on the recent antlr.py of an existing >> antlr package in Debian > > Re "outdated": the antlr.py included in xlwt 0.7.0 is from antlr2 > version 2.7.5. xlwt's compilation of Excel formulas is tested to work > with that version. > > The latest (last?) release of antlr2 is 2.7.7 -- might work, might fix > bugs [none reported], ... but *not* tested. > > It seems (http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Antlr3PythonTarget) > that Python output from antlr v3 is nowhere near ready for serious use. > > So what is the "recent antlr.py of an existing antlr package in Debian" > that you were proposing "depending on"?
Hello, the version in Debian is currently 2.7.7 [1]. I tested its compatibility with xlwt and it seems to be compatible. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/antlr.html Debian has a policy of not shiping included versions of third party code in a release if there is a version in Debian. The reason is that this would make the work of the Debian security team much more tedious. Regards Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklh1CYACgkQXZJ0m2XDVK+lQwCcCdbw6bYAYLlM0B9Ajp5oC6+q wNsAn3hPwvfvossMV5WB9kw4fURraQej =GaT8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
