Hi! On Tue, 2026-06-09 at 16:10:56 -0400, David Steele wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Steele <[email protected]> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > * Package name : argparse-formatter > Version : 1.6-1 > Upstream Contact: David Steele <[email protected]> > * URL : https://github.com/davesteele/argparse_formatter > * License : GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description : An advanced formatter for argparse > > The Python standard argparse library module remains a useful tool for > CLI documentation and argument collection. It contains a number of > Formatter classes which can perform operations such as automatic word > wrap and paragraph formatting. Unfortunately, none do both. > > This package introduces the ParagraphHelpFormatter, which supports word > wrap, paragraph formatting, and bulleted lists. Debian packaging makes > it more generally available for Python CLI packages. > > This module has long been submitted for inclusion with Python [1]. It's > recently been decided that no new Formatters will be included with the > language. [2]
To avoid taking over the global namespace for a language specific module, please namespace the source package with "python-". Thanks, Guillem
