DEP3/5 parser code

[James Westby]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:10:14 +0200, Christian Kastner <debian at kvr.at> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I spent a bit of time recently coding a DEP3 and DEP5 parser because I
> couldn't find a Python module already implementing this. My motive was
> extending the Patch Tracker to automatically deduce the license of
> patches from DEP5 instead of adding a License: to DEP3, see:
> 
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/08/msg00773.html
> 
> Now I don't know how, but my initial search completely missed
> python-debian, where such code should probably go into instead of
> creating yet another package.
> 
> Luckily, the overlap between python-debian and my package -- which I
> called dsclib for the time being, as its primary focus is source
> packages -- is relatively low.
> 
> I will eventually replace the redundant parts of my code with code from
> python-debian (currently, this is just 822-parsing), adapt the rest and
> then submit patches / point to a git branch.

That sounds great. I think it would be a great addition to
python-debian.

Thanks,

James