Re: Packaging python-datasette for Debian

Mahangu Weerasinghe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.python
Message-ID <CACe4y=8_2UFCt9UJDBdHCVFDn+NmD7tsa9dZEUKmW82cgV2gCQ@mail.gmail.com>
I've pushed my work to Salsa -
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/datasette

The package builds successfully with gbp and lintian passes.

Could I please request a sponsor to provide feedback and potentially upload
this package? ITP here -
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120835

Thank you!

Best,
Mahangu

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM Mahangu Weerasinghe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Noted, thank you! I filed an ITP bug for this package here -
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120835
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM Aryan Karamtoth <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17-11-2025 06:11, Mahangu Weerasinghe wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> > I'm considering packaging datasette -
>> > https://github.com/simonw/datasette - for Debian. It's a Python tool
>> > for exploring and publishing data as an interactive website.
>> >
>> > datasette runs as a server, making it well-suited for apt installation.
>> >
>> > All dependencies are already in Debian and I've built and installed
>> > the package locally.
>> >
>> > Would this be appropriate for Python Team maintenance? Any objections
>> > or suggestions before I create the Salsa repository? Thank you!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Mahangu
>>
>> I don't see the need for asking this as this is a python package and the
>> team is meant for maintaining just for these kind of packages.
>>
>> If you're already in the Salsa team, you can proceed with the repository
>> and packaging. No need to ask for the permission explicitly as you were
>> already given maintainer access just for that.
>>
>> That said, if you feel that this package is worth being packaged into
>> Debian and will be actually useful to the users or devs, sure you can go
>> with that if you feel its fit.
>>
>> You can file a ITP bug and cc it to the debian-devel mailing list to let
>> others know that you're packaging it.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aryan Karamtoth,
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