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

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 10:32 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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

Correct, thanks for spotting it.

Ghis