Bug#1007924: ITP: rshell -- A remote shell for working with MicroPython boards

[Dave Jones <dave@waveform.org.uk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dave Jones <dave@waveform.org.uk>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : rshell
  Version         : 0.0.31-1
  Upstream Author : https://github.com/dhylands/rshell
* URL             : https://pypi.org/project/rshell/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : A remote shell for working with MicroPython boards

A simple shell which runs on the host and uses MicroPython's raw-REPL to 
send Python snippets to the board in order to get file-system 
information, to copy files to and from MicroPython's file-system. It 
also has the ability to invoke the MicroPython REPL, so rshell can be 
used as a terminal emulator as well.

Currently, the standard method for installing this is to use pip3. 
However, given it has minimal dependencies (pyserial and pyudev) which 
are already packaged nicely in Debian, there's no particular reason this 
shouldn't be deb-packaged too. The only other (direct) means of 
manipulating the file-system on a MicroPython device currently available 
in Debian (that I'm aware of) is the Thonny editor. However, Thonny 
requires a graphical environment, whilst rshell is also suitable for 
console only environments.

I'm happy to maintain this package as part of the Python team.