On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Daniele Tricoli <er...@mornie.org> wrote: > Hello Ian, > sorry for this late response I was a bit busy this month.
No worries >> Trying to have both python-chardet and python3-chardet in the same >> package was causing a lot of problems and overall hair-pulling. charade >> is just a way of supporting both python 2 and python 3 in the same >> package without needing separate versions for separate python versions. > > I understand the problem of having both python-chardet and python3-chardet > in the same package but this problem doesn't exist in Debian, so I can't > rely to this to bring python-charade into Debian. > > Don't think Debian just don't care about it, but having two similar > projects in the archive demands a cost, so we have to illustrate advantages > clearly. I was only concerned because, if I remember correctly, Debian has a python-requests package. As someone who doesn't use Debian (or Ubuntu) I was concerned (as a maintainer of requests) that the vendored dependencies were being stripped and other Debian packages used in their stead. >> It's still being improved and we are adding new encodings as well, so >> your effort to add it to the Debian repositories was not in vein. We >> don't yet have support for those encodings, but I'm planning on working >> on them over the next couple weekends. If you're interested in helping, >> that would be awesome. > > Enhancements in python-charade is a very good point to bring it into > Debian, and I undelined your enhancements for this reason. > > I don't have a lot of time at the moment but I will try to devote a bit of > time to help! Yeah, frankly, I have been very busy since sending that email and finding the information needed to add those character sets has not been... simple. Hopefully I will finish my degree uneventfully and find more time afterward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/can-kwu1np6p15ww98kojmjjz4-xjgofbsdrk1g+v2vskm2j...@mail.gmail.com
