Re: Bug#817056: ITP: python-typing -- Type Hints for Python

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Monday, March 07, 2016 09:01:30 AM Michael R. Crusoe wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Debian Med team <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : python-typing
>   Version         : 3.5.0.1
>   Upstream Author : Guido van Rossum, Jukka Lehtosalo, Łukasz Langa
> <jukka.lehtosalo@iki.fi> * URL             :
> https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/typing.html * License         : Python
> 2.0
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Type Hints for Python
> 
>  This is a backport of the standard library typing module to Python
>  versions older than 3.5.
> 
>  Typing defines a standard notation for Python function and variable
>  type annotations. The notation can be used for documenting code in a
>  concise, standard format, and it has been designed to also be used by
>  static and runtime type checkers, static analyzers, IDEs and other
>  tools.
> 
> This is a new dependency for python-schema-salad, and will be for any other
> Py2/Py3 package that contains typing hints. It will be maintained by the
> Debian-Med team but I'm happy to hand it over to other interested parties.

Please only package this for python(2).  We are in the process of dropping 
python3.4, so a python3 package isn't needed.

Scott K