Travis likes it better this way.
About integrating this library into xtas: seems reasonable, it's just a small convenience wrapper anyway. I seem to be using it more than the original maintainer at the moment, so it's likely I'll be doing the fixes when it breaks.

I looked into what a "history merge" is, but didn't find an explanation. If it makes patching from an upstream branch (e.g. my fork) really easy, this sounds like a good plan. And I would like to learn more about it :-).

But I also see the merits of having a version on PyPI that is maintained. I've asked the original maintainer if I can take this over from him while he is occupied with other things. Btw, my modification to pyspotlight allows for arbitrary keyword arguments to be passed, so it would be robust against the majority of DBp Spotlight REST API changes. Just as long as those docs are updated and we know which arguments to pass... ;-).