Can we retain py-xlrd 1.2 in pkgsrc?

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Subject: Can we retain py-xlrd 1.2 in pkgsrc?
From: Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 22:13:01 +0530

I came across this issue with some python scripts that were processing
xlsx files, after a routine upgrade of packages, that included py-xlrd.

py-xlrd version 1.2 seemed to support xlsx files while current version 2.x
seems to have dropped the support.

https://groups.google.com/g/python-excel/c/IRa8IWq_4zk/m/Af8-hrRnAgAJ

Some posts in above thread advise to switch to openpyxl, which may take
some time. Could older version that supports xlsx be retained say as
textproc/py-xlrd1 or something if there are users for it?

-- 
Mayuresh

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