Bug#1017959: RFP: meson-python -- Meson PEP 517 Python build backend

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org, Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>

* Package name    : meson-python
  Version         : 0.8.1
  Upstream Author : Filipe Laíns <lains@riseup.net>
* URL             : https://github.com/FFY00/meson-python
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Meson PEP 517 Python build backend

Python build backend (PEP 517) for Meson projects.

It enables Python package authors to use Meson as the build backend
for their packages.

Meson is a build system designed to increase programmer productivity.
It does this by providing a fast, simple and easy to use interface for
modern software development tools and practices.

meson-python is required to build scipy 1.9, which has started using
meson (and mesonpy) as a build system.

Probably best maintained by the Python Packaging Team,
but Jussi Pakkanen, maintainer of the meson package, might also be
interested to maintain meson-python.