Hi Simon,
First, sorry for my late answer.
Here is the review I've done so far concerning a potential migration
python-mpd2.
Le 25/04/2016 08:21, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
Processing control commands:
retitle 808824 please consider switching to python-mpd2 for upstream
maintenance and Python 3 support
Bug #808824 [python-mpd] python-mpd: homepage 404, package fork?
Changed Bug title to 'please consider switching to python-mpd2 for upstream
maintenance and Python 3 support' from 'python-mpd: homepage 404, package
fork?'.
python-mpd is now abandoned and unmaintained for sure.
The "de facto" official fork is indeed python-mpd2.
There are currently in testing 3 packages still depending on python-mpd:
aptitude search ~Dpython-mpd
fookebox - web-based jukebox frontend to mpd
mpdris2 - media player interface (MPRIS2) bridge for MPD
sonata - Client GTK+ pour le démon de lecture musical (MPD)
I did contact mpdris2 about python-mpd2 transition and the maintainer
informed me the project was already running fine with it.
sonata is probably dead, there is an active fork though which is already
using python-mpd2 [1].
Concerning fookebox I never used it or contacted the maintainer, the
project has probably moved to github as well [2].
I already started packaging python-mpd2 [3], not up to date though.
The only blocker would be fookebox once sonata released a stable version.
I'm currently not available to move forward on this.
I may update my python-mpd2 package in the mean time, but I will not be
able to fully resume my debian activities until September 2016.
I'm aware of the freeze starting in November/January, but I cannot
assure I will manage to work on it in time.
Anyone willing to step in is welcome, In the mean time I'll try to do
the best I can to help to move forward on this.
[0] https://github.com/eonpatapon/mpDris2/issues/59
[1] https://github.com/multani/sonata
[2] https://github.com/cockroach/fookebox/
[3] http://git.kaliko.me/?p=python-mpd2-debian.git
Cheers,
Geoff
