Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: Debichem Team <debichem-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net>, Debian Science List <debian-scie...@lists.debian.org>, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : mda-xdrlib Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Contact: Irfan Alibay * URL : https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mda-xdrlib * License : PSF License Version 2 Programming Lang: Python Description : a stand-alone XDRLIB module The xdrlib package has historically been a feature of the core python library. However, as of Python 3.11, the module was deemed to no longer be widely used and has been deprecated, with a target removal version of Python 3.13. Several of the MDAnalysis projects rely on the xdrlib module for their functionality, specifically for parsing GROMACS TPR and EDR files. To avoid a need to vendor in the xdrlib functionality in multiple projects, we take the approach of creating this stand-alone module which contains the python 3.10.8 xdrlib code and its relevant tests. mda-xdrlib is required by mdanalyis 2.7.0. mdanalyis is managed by the Debichem team, so debichem is a possible team home for mda-xdrlib. It conceivable that other projects might want to use the library, so a more general team, Debian Science or even Debian Python, could be considered for team maintenance.
