Bug#821301: ITP: backports-abc -- backport of "collections.abc" for Python 2

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On April 17, 2016 8:49:53 AM EDT, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> wrote:
>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
>* Package name    : backports-abc
>   Version         : 0.4
>   Upstream author : Stefan Bahnel et al.
>* URL             : https://github.com/cython/backports_abc
>* License         : Python-2.0
>   Programming Lang: Python 2
>   Description     : Backport of the "collections.abc" stdlib module
>  This is a backport to Python 2 of recent additions to the
>  "collections.abc" in Python 3.5.
>
>It is a dep of newer versions of tornado, a sagemath dep.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Snark on #debian-python

collections-abc is a very generic name.  I would suggest calling the source package python-collections-abc so it's not so generic.  That's what you'll end up calling the binary package anyway.

Scott K