Bug#956455: ITP: smart-open -- utils for streaming large files

[Sao I Kuan <saoikuan@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sao I Kuan <saoikuan@gmail.com>

* Package name    : smart-open
  Version         : 1.11.1
  Upstream Author : Radim Rehurek <me@radimrehurek.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/piskvorky/smart_open
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : utils for streaming large files

 smart-open is a library for efficient streaming of very large files
 from/to storages such as HDFS, WebHDFS, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, or local
 filesystem. It supports transparent, on-the-fly (de-)compression for a
 variety of different formats (gzip, bz2, etc.).

This package is a dependency of idseq-bench (#956033)[0].

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/956033

This package is a work which is part of COVID-19 BioHackathon[1,2].
The package will be team maintained (med-team).

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work