[Request] python-beautifulsoup

[doclist]

Request for backport of Beautiful Soup Python module.

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python-beautifulsoup 3.0.1-2ubuntu1
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"Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping."
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Version 3.0 (currently available in Edgy Eft) offers substantial improvements over version 2 (in Dapper) including
 - vastly improved Unicode support
- new support for modifying the parse tree (add, removing, replacing attributes, tags... etc.)
 - facilities to imorove parsing of large documents by reducing memory consumption through partial document parsing and new 'extract' method
- more polished syntax and function naming.
- Many other improvements (See http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/CHANGELOG.html).

Being a self-contained Python mode (no dependencies other than Python) and no real 'building' to speak of I see no problems that it could cause in Dapper.

Version 3 is a big upgrade from version 2 of this very useful tool. I would appreciate it if it could be backported.

[doclist (dclist)]

I've looked a bit at the dependencies of the beautifulsoup package in Eft.

The Eft beautifulsoup package depends (unnecessarily?) on more recent versions of debhelper and python-support than available in Dapper.

Ordinarily I guess these would also have to be backported but I think these dependencies are too strict. I'm sure Beautiful Soup will build with the Dapper versions of these packages.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Would like to ask the beautifulsoup packagers, are the strict dependencies required for this package?

[John Dong (jdong)]

Rejected from dapper-backports until the dependency situation changes.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

No need for an Ubuntu task... We already have it in Edgy and Feisty.