pyxb no longer supported upstream

[smoe]

Hello,
pabigot/pyxb#100 seeks a new maintainer. Linux distributions have since started to remove it (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946602). pbcore uses it (

pbcore/setup.py

Line 13 in 1fc62fc

'pyxb == 1.2.6',

) for validations if I get this right.
What should happen now? The best possible answer would possibly be that Pacific Biosciences starts maintaining that package or fund someone else maintaining it. What should us users do in the meantime?
Cheers,
Steffen

[pb-dseifert]

You have a point. We'll investigate and see which alternatives work for us. Any recommendations? The other popular ones I know are lxml and xmlschema.

[smoe]

Thank you for your swift reply. lxml is a wrapper for the libxml2 library, which seems like something I personally could understand. And there is a Debian package for it with a steady increase of users (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=lxml). I am blank about xmlschema or other alternatives, I am afraid.