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From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Maintenance of pydap
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:30:03 +0100
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for a start, you can try to get upstream to reply to this (old)
question: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pydap/6A6q-Y6qwtE

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to d-python, as it seems like a more appropriate place to
> discuss this matter.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Maintenance of pydap
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:00:32 +0000
> From: Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
> To: morph@debian.org
> CC: python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> Ciao Sandro,
>
> I recently got involved with the packaging of the HDF compass [1], a
> viewer for HDF5 written in Python and using pydap as an install
> dependency.
>
> The version of pydap currently packaged is too old to work with the
> compass, first because version 3.x apparently changed the module API
> from using `import dap` to `import pydap`.
>
> I saw the following bug report [2] requesting an update of the package,
> but it was not acted upon or acknowledged. I am thereby contacting you
> to know whether the package was still actively maintained on your end.
>
> If you have lost interest in maintaining this package, myself and the
> Debian Science Team would be interested in taking over, since both
> hdf-compass and pydap are science related.
>
> Otherwise, please allow me to request an update to this package so I
> can carry on with my packaging work on hdf-compass.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812434
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788508
>
> Many thanks,
> Ghis



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