On 11/17/18 9:23 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Nick Morrott
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name: python-hgapi
> Version : 1.7.3
> Upstream Author : Fredrik Håård
> * URL : https://github.com/haard/hgapi
> * License : Expat
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : module providing a pure-Python API to Mercurial
>
> hgapi is a pure-Python API to the Mercurial command-line, instead of the
> internal Mercurial API.
>
> hgapi works for all versions of Mercurial, and will instantly reflect any
> changes to the repository (including hgrc).
>
> hgapi is a dependency of yotta [1]
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908781
>
Is there a particular reason yotta needs to use this instead of hglib,
which:
- is already in debian
- is maintained by mercurial upstream
- has pretty much the exact same package description as the above
?
This seems like useless duplication.
Thanks,
Julien
