Bug#875764: RFS: pybind11/2.2.1-1 [experimental]

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the following package:

* Package name    : pybind11
  Version         : 2.2.1-1
  Upstream Author : Wenzel Jakob <wenzel.jakob@epfl.ch>
* URL             : https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
* License         : BSD
  Section         : libs

Please check out the package by visiting the following URL:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/pybind11.git

Changes since last upload:

  * New upstream version 2.2.1
  * Drop the patch queue, no longer required
  * Prevent multiple install of headers
  * Add new test dependency on Boost
  * Test query of includes via pybind11
  * Add recommended get-orig-source target
  * Fixup the nocheck and nodoc guards
    - Replace occurrences of findstring with filter
    - Use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS instead of DEB_BUILD_PROFILES
  * Fixup whitespacing in rules file
  * Drop superfluous dependency on python-pytest
  * Filter egg-info directory with extend-diff-ignore
  * Fixup the Vcs-Browser URI
  * Bump the standards version to 4.1.0

Regards,
Ghis