Re: pykml packaging

[Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>]

Dear Bas,

Il 15/05/22 18:46, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
> On 5/15/22 11:07, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> > Please feel free to review them.
>
> debian/copyright
>
> GitHub repo is better than PyPI for Source.
>
>
> debian/patches/*
>
> Forward patches upstream and mark them accordingly.
>
> Don't use a mailinglist for From/Author.
>
>
> debian/python3-pykml.lintian-overrides
>
> Move executables to pykml binary package.
>
>
>
> debian/watch
>
> Using GitHub tags is generally better than the PyPI service. PyPI is 
> only for cases where there are not tagged releases elsewhere.
>
> But the GitHub repo lacks tags for the releases on PyPI. And the project 
> hasn't seen any changes in 10 years. Doesn't look like a good project to 
> have in Debian. You'll have to carry a lot of patches that upstream 
> won't act on.

the git repository [1] seems to be outdated w.r.t. the PyPi version 
despite the tag version (v1.1.0).
I will try to contact the upstream author.

[1] https://github.com/pykml/pykml
[2] https://pypi.org/project/pykml

regards
--
Antonio Valentino