Orphaning PycURL

[Kamil Dudka]

On Friday, February 22, 2013 14:54:04 Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excellent!  Jeffrey, will you be picking python-pycurl up again, then?
> 
> No.  While this was an easy fix that was actually in another package,
> PycURL has other problems.  I think that the most obvious one is
> handling errors encountered by libcurl (DNS errors, connection
> refused, etc.) and passing back sensible error messages back to the
> Python layer.  I'm sure a little trolling of bugzilla would turn up
> others.
> 
> There are patches out there that fix these and other problems, but as
> I said, I don't want to become the de facto upstream PycURL
> maintainer, especially for a package that is this critical to the
> project.  I just don't have the time or interest.

I have taken the ownership for now.

Kamil