Re: [PATCH 17/18] gnu: Add python-translitcodec.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Leo Famulari writes:

> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 03:33:27PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> From 4194f0b325d64718529275906ffe8294e8fb6111 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:23:11 -0800
>> Subject: [PATCH 17/18] gnu: Add python-translitcodec.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-translitcodec, python2-translitcodec):
>>   New variables.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
>> index efe0229..2cb87bc 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
>> @@ -8045,3 +8045,35 @@ synchronously (wait until ready).")
>>                         ("python2-unittest2" ,python2-unittest2)
>>                         ("python2-mock" ,python2-mock)
>>                         ,@(package-native-inputs celery))))))
>> +
>> +(define-public python-translitcodec
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "python-translitcodec")
>> +    (version "0.4.0")
>> +    (source
>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (pypi-uri "translitcodec" version))
>> +       (sha256
>> +        (base32
>> +         "10x6pvblkzky1zhjs8nmx64nb9jdzxad4bxhq4iwv0j4z2aqjnki"))))
>> +    (build-system python-build-system)
>> +    (arguments
>> +     `(#:tests? #f))  ; no tests provided
>> +    (home-page
>> +     "https://github.com/claudep/translitcodec";)
>> +    (synopsis
>> +     "Unicode to 8-bit charset transliteration codec")
>> +    (description
>> +     "This package contains codecs for transliterating ISO 10646 texts into
>> +best-effort representations using smaller coded character sets (ASCII,
>> +ISO 8859, etc.).  The translation tables used by the codecs are from
>> +the 'transtab' collection by Markus Kuhn.")
>
> Do we need to attribute Mr. Kuhn here? AFAIK we don't normally do this.

We don't have to.  I snarfed that from the translitcodec description.
It can be easily removed... in fact, done.