Dear all,
here are two questions: one concerning adopting/updating mechanize and
how to deal with rdepends, one concerning how to fix tests with special
requirements in pybuild.
For calibre and porting to python3, I need mechanize for python3.
The current version of python-mechanize is from 2012 and version 0.2.5,
while the latest version is 0.4.3 from a few days ago.
The recent versions support python3, so I would like to update
mechanize.
I checked the rdepends of python-mechanize:
python-twill
zope2.13
python-zope.testbrowser
calibre
python-clientform
zope2.13 is very old, removed from testing, unmaintained
python-zope.testbrowser the same
python-clientform is a transitional package build from mechanize
python-twill has a last upload in 2016, but is lagging behind badly
(current version 1.8 on pypi)
calibre needs an updated mechanize.
So I think it would be fine to simply update mechanize without too much
troubles.
The current maintainers/uploaders are
Maintainer: Debian/Ubuntu Zope Team
<pkg-zope-develop...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Brian Sutherland <br...@vanguardistas.net>,
Fabio Tranchitella <kob...@debian.org>,
Jérémy Bobbio <lu...@debian.org>,
Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com>,
Arnaud Fontaine <ar...@debian.org>
(In CC, but Brian removed, he already declared he does not want to
maintain the package anymore, see bug #869439)
I would be interested in adopting mechanize if the current maintainers
/ uploaders are fine with it. Or we put it into the python modules team
and I do the stuff there. All is fine for me.
How could be proceed here?
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Now for the pybuild question:
Current mechanize needs to set up a special environment for the tests.
There is a dedicated script
run_tests.py
that would do the trick. I tried to use the pybuild before tests feature
to export PYTHONPATH, but that didn't work.
Is there a way to run a specific script instead of the built-in tests of
pybuild?
I thought about using PYTHON_DISABLE=tests and add a specific dh test
target. WDYT?
Thanks for any hints!
All the best
Norbert
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