Forwarding to d-python, as it seems like a more appropriate place to discuss this matter.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Maintenance of pydap Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:00:32 +0000 From: Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> To: mo...@debian.org CC: python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org Ciao Sandro, I recently got involved with the packaging of the HDF compass [1], a viewer for HDF5 written in Python and using pydap as an install dependency. The version of pydap currently packaged is too old to work with the compass, first because version 3.x apparently changed the module API from using `import dap` to `import pydap`. I saw the following bug report [2] requesting an update of the package, but it was not acted upon or acknowledged. I am thereby contacting you to know whether the package was still actively maintained on your end. If you have lost interest in maintaining this package, myself and the Debian Science Team would be interested in taking over, since both hdf-compass and pydap are science related. Otherwise, please allow me to request an update to this package so I can carry on with my packaging work on hdf-compass. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812434 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788508 Many thanks, Ghis