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Hello Kenneth, So for Buster release, I've let the epydoc support be enabled as is. For post Buster, I have dropped the epydoc dependency altogether as it is not a hard dependency. Thanks, Ritesh On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 19:18 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > Source: python-configshell-fb > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > If possible, please consider moving away from the use of Epydoc in > your > package. Epydoc is basically unmaintained upstream. Also, it is > only > supported for Python 2, so it will reach its end of life along with > Python 2 sometime in 2020. > > I will continue to maintain the Epydoc packages in Debian as long as > I > can, acting as de facto upstream. However, once Python 2 is > unsupported > in Debian, I'm not sure that we'll have too many options to keep it > alive. Migrating it to Python 3 is a fairly large job that I don't > have the time or the expertise to take on right now. > > For my own Python code, I have recently converted to Sphinx using the > Napolean plugin. At [1], I can offer you (or your upstream) a hack- > ish > script to convert common Epydoc markup to Google-style docstrings. > It's > not perfect, but it would get you much of the way toward working > code. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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