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

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On April 17, 2016 9:14:57 AM EDT, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 17/04/2016 14:56, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>The source package would be "backports-abc" and the binary package
>would 
>be "python-backports-abc".
>
>Would that do?


My suggestion is python-backports-abc for source and binary since backports-abc is such a generic name.

Scott K