[Python-modules-team] Prepared new version of python-mecab with Python 3 support

[Zack Weinberg]

I am, kinda by accident, one of the maintainers of the PyPI package
'mecab-python3' (https://pypi.org/project/mecab-python3/) which
provides an identical API to the existing Debian package
'python-mecab' (it's based ultimately on the same SWIG interface
definition written by MeCab upstream), but, because it ships that SWIG
interface definition instead of code generated from it, it actually
supports Python 3.

I have a need for Debian-packaged Python 3 bindings for MeCab for my
day job, and so I have taken the liberty of preparing an update of
python-mecab based on this PyPI package.  You can find a complete set
of source and binary packages at
https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/debian/ .

I am not a Debian developer or maintainer, and don't particularly want
to be one, but if one of you would like to check my work and upload
these packages, with any changes you feel are appropriate, to the
official archive, I would appreciate it.

(This would close bug #719466 , but I may have forgotten to say so in
the changelog, sorry about that.)

zw