Bug#579401: ITP: pyopenfst -- Python bindings for the OpenFst library

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:04 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : pyopenfst
python-openfst ?

>    Version         : (not released yet)
>    Upstream Author : Thomas Breuel, David Huggins-Daines
> * URL             : http://code.google.com/p/pyopenfst/
> * License         : Apache License 2.0
>    Programming Lang: C++
>    Description     : Python bindings for the OpenFst library
> 
> The OpenFST library implements algorithms on weighted finite state 
> transducers. The PyOpenFST project contains bindings for the library.

I would suggest duplicating libopenfst's description, then add that this
is python binding, like:

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OpenFst is a library for constructing, combining, optimizing, and 
searching weighted finite-state transducers (FSTs). Weighted 
finite-state transducers are automata where each transition has an input
label, an output label, and a weight. The more familiar finite-state 
acceptor is represented as a transducer with each transition's input and
output label equal. Finite-state acceptors are used to represent sets of
strings (specifically, regular or rational sets); finite-state 
transducers are used to represent binary relations between pairs of 
strings (specifically, rational transductions). The weights can be used 
to represent the cost of taking a particular transition.

This package (known upstream as PyOpenFST), contains the python
bindings.
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Regards,

Franklin