Bug#852626: RFS: h5py/2.7.0~rc3-1 [RC]

[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~rc3-1
  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~rc3-1.dsc

Or checkout the packaging repository at:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/h5py.git

Changes since the last upload:

  * New upstream release (Closes: #851162)
  * Rebase patch queue
    - Drop 0002-Explicity-specify-endianess-of-expected-output-type.patch,
    applied upstream
  * Cherry pick upstream fix for builds on ppc64el
    - New patch 0002-Fix-arch-name-for-ppc64le.patch
  * Cherry-pick proposed fix for version numbers
    - New patch 0003-Fix-version_tuple-to-make-it-PEP440-compliant.patch

Regards,
Ghislain Vaillant