Bug#642170: RFP: pyshapelib -- Python bindings for shapelib (library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles)

[Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : pyshapelib
  Version         : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de>, Bram de Greve <bram.degreve@bramz.net>
* URL             : http://wald.intevation.org/projects/pyshapelib/
* License         : LGPL-2+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python bindings for shapelib (library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles)

 pyshapelib a python wrapper for
 shapelib, a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles, a
 frequently used format for geographic data.

This package is needed for basemap, so we can avoid to use the embedded one.