Bug#850422: RFS: h5py/2.7.0~rc2-1

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "h5py"

* Package name    : h5py
  Version         : 2.7.0~rc2-1
  Upstream Author : Andrew Colette
* URL             : http://www.h5py.org/
* License         : BSD
  Section         : python

It builds those binary packages:

  python-h5py - general-purpose Python interface to hdf5 (Python 2)
  python-h5py-dbg - debug extension for h5py (Python 2)
  python-h5py-doc - h5py documentation
  python3-h5py - general-purpose Python interface to hdf5 (Python 3)
  python3-h5py-dbg - debug extension for h5py (Python 3)

To access further information about this package, please visit the 
following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/h5py

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/h5py/h5py_2.7.0~rc2-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  * Switch to git-dpm
    - The patch queue is numbered now
    - The gbp configuration has been dropped
  * New upstream release
  * Rebase the patch queue
    - Drop 0002-Disable-broken-tests.patch, fixed upstream
    - Drop 0003-Package-Config-Fix-Detection.patch, applied upstream
  * Drop versioned dependency on Cython, no longer required
  * Adjust the minimum version of Python 3 to 3.3
  * Upgrade the packaging to debhelper 10
  * Support the nodoc build profile
    - Add appropriate build dependency on dpkg-dev
    - Mark build dependencies for the documentation as !nodoc
    - Add build dependency on sphinx-common for dh_sphinxdoc
    - Do not build the documentation if nodoc is requested
  * Fix incomplete care of debug packages
    - Use nominal set of install dependencies for each -dbg package
    - Add missing dh_strip override for each -dbg package
  * Add missing Built-Using for the Sphinx documentation

Regards,
Ghislain Vaillant