Hello, Just noticed that Olivier Sallou did a new upload of python-captcha recently, so presumably this means there is some interest in keeping python-captcha in Debian. Have CCed him in case he can offer any opinions.
Thanks. On 5 May 2014 09:58, Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote: > Hello, > > Debian has the following package: > > Package: python-captcha > Source: pycaptcha > Version: 0.4-1 > Installed-Size: 788 > Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team < > python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Architecture: all > Depends: python2.6 | python2.7, python (>= 2.6.6-7~), python (<< 2.8), > python-imaging (>= 1.1.5), ttf-bitstream-vera > Description-en: collection of Python modules implementing CAPTCHAs > This package contains Python modules to add some captcha > in an application to recognize a human versus a robot. > The package generates an image based on a dictionary. > Homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyCAPTCHA/0.4 > Description-md5: 2d19869b66fbe12deefdf153202fb4b5 > Tag: devel::lang:python, implemented-in::python, role::shared-lib > Section: python > Priority: optional > Filename: pool/main/p/pycaptcha/python-captcha_0.4-1_all.deb > Size: 385570 > MD5sum: 4b080c1bb24da0ab0dff77fb2158fae0 > SHA1: 06eca771b4049072dadd97fbdd6f443b0be6c405 > SHA256: b85cb47d172a1070ec24e73b063933e134373c1dfcb6c61fe6f5da4d22cf65cc > > > According to that homepage, the last release was 2006, so it appears to > have been abandoned upstream. I can't find documentation for it. It > provides the python module name "Captcha" > > > I have a project that requires django-simple-captcha, from: > > https://github.com/mbi/django-simple-captcha > http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-simple-captcha > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-simple-captcha/0.4.2 > > It provides the python module name "captcha", comes with documentation, > and has recent commits. > > Technically speaking, the module names don't conflict, this is only > because of the case of the first character is different, which IMHO isn't > sufficient. Also policy would require me to package django-simple-captcha > as python-captcha, which would clash. > > > I filed an ITP for django-simple-captcha before I realized the clash: > > http://bugs.debian.org/746632 > > I considered porting my application to use python-captcha, however as that > appears to be the inferior library, don't think I want to do that. > > > What is the solution? I can think of: > > * Get upstream to rename django-simple-captcha. Very hard to justify when > development of the conflicting package is dead. > > * Remove python-captcha from Debian. Nothing appears to depend on it in > the Debian archive. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks > -- > Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> > -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>
