Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Gilbey <j...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : distance Version : 0+git20131122.ad7f9dc Upstream Author : Michaël Meyer * URL : https://github.com/doukremt/distance * License : GPL-3+, public-domain, BSD-1-clause Programming Lang: Python (with a disabled C library) Description : Python library for comparing sequences This package provides helpers for computing similarities between arbitrary sequences. Included metrics are Levenshtein, Hamming, Jaccard, and Sorensen distance, plus some bonuses. The distance computations are implemented in pure Python. This package is needed as a build dependency for python3-textdistance, which is a much more comprehensive Python package for calculating the distance between sequences. This package is a (recursive) dependency of the new Spyder 4.x series, hence the need to package it. There is an included C library which is optional but broken and so has been disabled. This package will be maintained within the Debian Python Team.
