Bug#946696: RFS: python-blosc/1.8.1+ds1-1 [RC] [QA] -- Python 3 bindings for the Blosc meta-compressor

[Håvard Flaget Aasen <haavard_aasen@yahoo.no>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: important

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-blosc"

* Package name : python-blosc
Version : 1.8.1+ds1-1
Upstream Author : Francesc Alted <francesc@blosc.org>
* URL : https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc
* License : BSD-3-clause
* Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-blosc
Section : python

It builds those binary packages:

python3-blosc - Python 3 bindings for the Blosc meta-compressor
python-blosc-doc - Python bindings for the Blosc meta-compressor (docs)

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

https://mentors.debian.net/package/python-blosc

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

dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-blosc/python-blosc_1.8.1+ds1-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

* QA upload
* New upstream version 1.8.1+ds1
* Create 0002-platform-linux_distribution-is-gone-in-python-3.8.patch
closes: #944320
* Added minimum version on libblosc-dev in b-d
* Bump dh to 12
* Remove python2 package under recommends, for doc package.
* Change copyright from Expat to BSD-3 for upstream files.



This package is part of the ongoing testing transition to python 3.8. 
The current version ftbfs.

Regards,
Håvard