On Thu, Oct 10, 2024, Boyuan Yang wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: adrien.na...@canonical.com > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:48:47 +0200 Adrien Nader <adrien.na...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Apologies for not answering the initial report. > > > > Upstream does a release every few days which makes tracking their > > versions impossible. For that reason and generally speaking, update > > requests should come with an explanation of why an update will be > > useful. > > > > The reason for this package was to be able to move forward with dropping > > python-oauth2client in favor of maintained libraries initially because > > oauth2client uses APIs removed from pyopenssl and later on because that > > helps with authentication in gcalcli, mutt/neomutt, and others. > > > > The package itself is present purely as a dependency of python-googleapi > > and I'm not sure it has another use than that. > > I wasn't around in August so I couldn't follow up with that > > unfortunately but I never intended to hold tight on the package due to > > all of the above. At the moment, I'm not entirely clear on the course of > > action to have it inside the DPT however. > > People care this package due to its importance, even if only as a dependency > package. > If you are willing to have it team-maintained under Debian Python Team > as shown on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonTeam , please just let us > know. > All relevant necessary one-time tasks (creating git packaging repo under the > team, > updating metadata) can be done soon with your permission. After that, you can > still > maintain this package in Debian as usual, while other team members can also > handle > Python-related tasks together on this package.
I think team maintenance will be best for the package so please go ahead and let me know if there is something I can do to help. Thanks. -- Adrien
