Re: Bug#812117: RM: simpletal -- RoQA; unmaintained; low popcon

2016-01-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > loggerhead: loggerhead And that rdep is relatively important since AFAIK we use loggerhead at least on alioth to browse bzr repositories. Maybe it's best to invest a bit of time into updating it rather than dropping it just for the sake of its low

Re: Amend Debian Python Proposal to Include More Python Metadata?

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hey Donald! As far as using pip to do stuff system-wide, I wrote thoughts on http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python As for the rest of it, distutils is actually concretely shitty, and replacing it with setuptools sounds sane. Sounds like a solid idea. Perhaps we can add a Lintian warning for using

Re: Amend Debian Python Proposal to Include More Python Metadata?

2016-01-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:00:53 AM Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > > > Hey Donald! > > > > As far as using pip to do stuff system-wide, I wrote thoughts on > > http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python

Amend Debian Python Proposal to Include More Python Metadata?

2016-01-21 Thread Donald Stufft
Hello! I'd like to suggest a change to the Debian Policy around Python packages that will help enable the world of Python packaging to continue to progress forward. First, a little bit of background: At the Python level there are three metadata formats for Python packaging: * The original,

Request to Join

2016-01-21 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Hello python modules team! I'd like to request to join this team to help maintain backports of the Let's Encrypt dependencies, especially python-sphinx. I've read and agree to the Python Modules Team Policy. My Alioth username is hlieberman-guest. Sincerely, -- Harlan Lieberman-Berg

Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch

2016-01-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
I've taken a run through the current Python Policy to see where I think it needs to be updated for Stretch. The updates largely fall into four categories: 1. Update old examples 2. Clean up old policy test that no longer applies 3. Simplify things due to there only being one python version

Re: Amend Debian Python Proposal to Include More Python Metadata?

2016-01-21 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Hey Donald! > > As far as using pip to do stuff system-wide, I wrote thoughts on > http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python I just want to be clear, that I totally agree with this.