Re: Bug#1139574: ITP: argparse-formatter -- An advanced formatter for Python argparse

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