Status of pythondialog in Debian

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hello,

As the upstream maintainer of pythondialog, I feel a bit concerned about
its status in Debian, in particular about what is going to go into
jessie. In short, I'd rather see the package removed from Debian than
stay in the current status.

The package that is currently in unstable is terribly outdated (the
version dates from 2004), has a few bugs, supports neither Unicode
correctly nor Python 3, contrary to current upstream versions, not to
mention a bunch of features including help and extra button support,
easy pythondialog and backend version checking, autowidgetsize and the
new Sphinx-generated manual[1].

In case someone is interested, I've prepared a package of the latest
version for Python 3, using dh, dh_python3 and pybuild, following the
suggestions given on the Debian Python wiki (which is nice to have,
thank you!). It has been built on current sid and is available in the
following GPG-signed APT repository:

  deb http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/debian unstable main
  deb-src http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/debian unstable main

(along with other packages, don't upgrade blindly if you add the
repository to your sources.list)

Thanks

  [1] http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/doc/

-- 
Florent