Bug#960142: ITP: pyerfa -- Python bindings for ERFA routines

[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, debian-astro@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : pyerfa
  Version         : TBD
  Upstream Author : Astropy Developers
* URL             : https://github.com/liberfa/pyerfa
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python bindings for ERFA routines

PyERFA is the Python wrapper for the ERFA library (Essential Routines
for Fundamental Astronomy), a C library containing key algorithms for
astronomy, which is based on the SOFA library published by the
International Astronomical Union (IAU). All C routines are wrapped as
Numpy universal functions, so that they can be called with scalar or
array inputs.

The project is a split of astropy._erfa module, developed in the context
of Astropy project, into a standalone package, and therefore will be a
dependency of upcoming Astropy releases.

The packages will be maintained under Debian Astro team maintainance,
with the repository at

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/pyerfa

Best regards

Ole