Bug#863605: ITP: python-pyserial -- serial port access library in Python

[Julien Cristau <julien@cristau.org>]

On 05/29/2017 10:22 AM, Ghislain Antony Vaillant wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
> 
> * Package name    : python-pyserial
>   Version         : 3.3
>   Upstream Author : Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net>
> * URL             : https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : serial port access library in Python
> 
> Long-Description:
>  This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides
>  backends for Python running on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD (possibly any
>  POSIX compliant system) and IronPython. The module named "serial"
>  automatically selects the appropriate backend.
> 
> This package is a dependency to src:python-pymeasure. It will be
> co-maintained by the Debian Science Team.
> 
Sounds like this duplicates the existing python-serial package.

Cheers,
Julien