Hi, On 24 September 2017 at 22:07, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <valhall...@trueelena.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I request assistance with maintaining the rst2pdf package. > > The package description is: > The usual way of creating PDF files from reStructuredText is by going through > LaTeX. This tool provides an alternative by producing PDF directly using the > ReportLab library. > > rst2pdf currently only supports python2 (#826908); there was an effort > from upstream to resume developement and an issue to track supporting > python3, but apparently they have stopped again in 2016. > > Since sooner or later python2 will be dropped from Debian, rst2pdf will > have to follow, unless somebody cares about it enought to solve the > situation. > > I believe that rst2pdf is currently being used as a build-dependency by > the following packages, whose maintainers I'm cc-ing: > > * apcupsd > * davical > * pdal > > Right now, I'm not really using this package, so in case there is a need > for an upstream fork I'm not the right person do do it, but if upstream > resumes working or there is a new upstream I would be glad to continue > maintaining the package.
I think I can have a look at it :) I'll let you know later today if I'm really interested. -- Cheers, Andrew
