I've pushed my work to Salsa - https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/datasette
The package builds successfully with gbp and lintian passes. Could I please request a sponsor to provide feedback and potentially upload this package? ITP here - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120835 Thank you! Best, Mahangu On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM Mahangu Weerasinghe <[email protected]> wrote: > Noted, thank you! I filed an ITP bug for this package here - > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120835 > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM Aryan Karamtoth < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 17-11-2025 06:11, Mahangu Weerasinghe wrote: >> > Hi folks, >> > I'm considering packaging datasette - >> > https://github.com/simonw/datasette - for Debian. It's a Python tool >> > for exploring and publishing data as an interactive website. >> > >> > datasette runs as a server, making it well-suited for apt installation. >> > >> > All dependencies are already in Debian and I've built and installed >> > the package locally. >> > >> > Would this be appropriate for Python Team maintenance? Any objections >> > or suggestions before I create the Salsa repository? Thank you! >> > >> > Best, >> > Mahangu >> >> I don't see the need for asking this as this is a python package and the >> team is meant for maintaining just for these kind of packages. >> >> If you're already in the Salsa team, you can proceed with the repository >> and packaging. No need to ask for the permission explicitly as you were >> already given maintainer access just for that. >> >> That said, if you feel that this package is worth being packaged into >> Debian and will be actually useful to the users or devs, sure you can go >> with that if you feel its fit. >> >> You can file a ITP bug and cc it to the debian-devel mailing list to let >> others know that you're packaging it. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Aryan Karamtoth, >> Sponsored Maintainer @Debian >> Ports Maintainer @FreeBSD >> >> IRC: SpaciousCoder78 >> Matrix: @SpaciousCoder78:matrix.org >> XMPP: [email protected] >> >> GPG Fingerprint: 7A7D 9308 2BD1 9BAF A83B 7E34 FE90 07B8 ED64 0421 >> >>
