Bug#1085206: ITP: evalidate -- Validation and secure evaluation of untrusted Python expressions

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : evalidate
Version : 2.0.3
* URL : https://github.com/yaroslaff/evalidate
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Validation and secure evaluation of untrusted Python expressions
Evaluate user-supplied Python expressions by walking their syntax tree
and allowing only operations that pass a given security model.
I'm packaging this because it's a new dependency of buildbot 4.1.0. I
plan to maintain it within the Debian Python Team.

This seems to be a python module only package, but its source package
name is not currently namespaced. Given that it has not yet passed NEW,
please namespace it with python- to avoid taking on the global namespace,
so that we do not "prevent" packaging something that for example installs
a command with the same name (or having to end up using a non-obvious one
for that, or requiring a future rename), so that it's easier to see what
it is about when doing archive-wide analysis from Sources, or dd-lists,
or even reading changelogs via stuff like apt-listchanges, like the rest
of the language specific teams are doing. :)

Thanks,
Guillem

[Colin Watson]

Post by Guillem Jover
This seems to be a python module only package, but its source package
name is not currently namespaced. Given that it has not yet passed NEW,
please namespace it with python- to avoid taking on the global namespace,

OK, done, and I asked #debian-ftp to reject the un-namespaced package
from NEW.

Thanks,