Bug#956048: ITP: extension-helpers -- Utilities for building and installing packages

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org,
 debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : extension-helpers
  Version         : 0.1
  Upstream Author : The Astropy Developers
* URL             : https://pypi.org/project/extension-helpers/
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Utilities for building and installing packages

The extension-helpers package includes convenience helpers to assist
with building Python packages with compiled C/Cython extensions. It is
developed by the Astropy project but is intended to be general and
usable by any Python package.

This is not a traditional package in the sense that it is not intended
to be installed directly by users or developers. Instead, it is meant to
be accessed when the setup.py command is run and should be defined as a
build-time dependency in pyproject.toml files.

This package is a new dependency of many astropy affiliated packages. I
intend to maintain it under the DPMT hood, so the salsa git dir will be

https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/extension-helpers

Best regards

Ole