Bug#736523: ITP: python-future -- backport of the concurrent.futures package

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 01/24/2014 11:13 PM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2014-01-24 23:05:57, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name    : python-future
>>   Version         : 2.1.6
>>   Upstream Author : Alex Gronholm <alex.gronholm+pypi@nextday.fi>
>> * URL             : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures
>> * License         : BSD-2-clause
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : backport of the concurrent.futures package
>>
>>  This package is a backport of concurrent.futures from Python 3.2 to Python
>>  2.6, 2.7 and 3.1. In Debian, there is no use of Python 3.1 support anymore,
>>  and only 2.7, and to some extend 2.6 (for backports), is useful.
> 
> It's already packages python-concurrent.futures:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-concurrent.futures.html
> 
> Regards

I know, but that's not the same package. python-taskflow, which I'm
packaging, only works with python-futures, and not with
concurrent.futures for example.

> It's already in Debian:
>
> $ apt-cache show python-concurrent.futures
> Package: python-concurrent.futures
> Version: 2.1.6-1
> Installed-Size: 153
> Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
<python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> [...]
>
> Cheers,

As per above, no, it's not. And unfortunately, my package will even have
to Conflicts: with python-concurrent.futures :(

Thomas