Hi all, I'd like to request sponsorship of a new package, python-notify2.
This is intended as a replacement for pynotify (aka notify-python, python-notify), so it broadly copies the API from that package, although it's not a drop in replacement. Why is a replacement needed? - notify2 is compatible with Gtk 3 and Qt 4. pynotify can't even be imported in the same process as the gobject introspection bindings for Gtk 3, and its callbacks depend on the Gtk 2 event loop. - notify2 is compatible with Python 3; pynotify probably can't easily be made to support Python 3. - notify2 has useful docstrings and function signatures for introspection - Getting things wrong with pynotify can easily segfault your process. notify2 should just raise a Python exception. - notify2 is written in Python, not C, so it's shorter, more readable, and easier to maintain. A few points I'd like to ask about: - The tests: Running the tests during the build requires dbus and a notification daemon, which in turn requires an X server running. I've come up with a recipe that works in a pbuilder, but is it suitable for the autobuilders, and is there a better way to do it? - Examples: There are a handful of examples. At present, these end up in both of the binary packages, under /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/examples/ . I tried to put them in a separate python-notify2-docs package, but then the folder was in /usr/share/doc/python-notify2-docs, which doesn't seem right. Can I easily make a -docs package but keep the folder name python-notify2? - X-Python[3]-Version: I don't know what the minimum Python version required is. It doesn't use any new language features. Should I leave these fields out, copy them from dbus-python (the key dependency), or put the minimum I'd consider fixing things for (2.6/3.1)? Package name : python-notify2 Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/notify2 License : BSD Section : python It builds these binary packages: python-notify2 - Desktop notifications API for Python python3-notify2 - Desktop notifications API for Python 3 In the DPMT SVN repository: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/python-notify2/ On Debian mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-notify2 The ITP is #672799 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672799 Thanks for your time, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOvn4qhSvvgHiWLVf2toCx8Q_Lh1nbq=-JD=_kr4ew3vkn4...@mail.gmail.com
