Hi,
sorry for the late response. I just want to note that we have a
(non-Python) jellyfish inside Debian which is developed at
https://github.com/gmarcais/Jellyfish.
I do not see a name conflict but I wonder whether some hint might
be sensible.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Diego M. Rodriguez" <diego.pl...@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name : python-jellyfish
> Version : 0.5.1
> Upstream Author : James Turk <james.p.t...@gmail.com>
> * URL : https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish
> * License : BSD-2-clause
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : Python library for doing approximate and phonetic
> matching of strings
>
> Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic
> matching of strings. Includes algorithms for string comparison
> (Levenshtein Distance, Damerau-Levenshtein Distance, Jaro Distance,
> Jaro-Winkler Distance, Match Rating Approach Comparison, Hamming
> Distance) and phonetic encoding (American Soundex, Metaphone, NYSIIS,
> Match Rating Codex).
>
>
> This package is a dependency on the latest versions of the "beets"
> package, as noted in a recent bug report [1]. Jellyfish itself has no
> external dependencies, and includes an optional C implementation of its
> algorithms compiled using the distutils build_ext command [2].
>
> Ideally I'd love to maintain this package under the umbrella and
> hopefully guidance of the Debian Python Modules Team.
>
> Please note that this package is unrelated to the existing "jellyfish"
> debian package [3].
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775719#10
> [2] https://github.com/jamesturk/cjellyfish
> [3] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/jellyfish
>
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