Bug#711388: ITP: scandir -- Better directory iterator that returns all file info the OS provides

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On January 14, 2017 6:32:07 AM EST, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> wrote:
>Control: retitle -1 ITP: scandir -- Better directory iterator that
>returns all file info the OS provides
>
>I would like to package python-scandir, as newer versions of
>python-pathlib2 now depend on it.
>
>As I don't want to add new deps to the python-pathlib2 package now,
>I'll
>work in several steps :
>- close this ITP bug by packaging scandir ;
>- leave things as-is until stretch is out ;
>- get newer python-pathlib2 out with a depend on python-scandir (thus
>closing #851137).
>
>For reference, that is a backport of the scandir in Python 3 ; I know
>it's a wishlist item to stop packaging Python 2 modules, but since it's
>a new dep of an existing one, I think it still makes sense.

Scandir is pretty generic.  I'd suggest python-scandir or similar for the package name.

Scott K