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Bug#1135860: RFP: python-spin -- Scientific Python INcantations

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From	Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#1135860: RFP: python-spin -- Scientific Python INcantations
Date	Wed, 06 May 2026 20:00:01 +0200
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Severity: wishlist
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Control: affects -1 src:scipy

* Package name    : python-spin
  Version         : 0.18
  Upstream Contact: Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu>
* URL             : https://github.com/scientific-python/spin
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Scientific Python INcantations

A developer tool for scientific Python libraries

Developers need to memorize a whole bunch of magic command-line
incantations. These incantations may also change over time. Often,
Makefiles are used to provide aliases, but Makefiles can be
convoluted, are not written in Python, and are hard to extend. The
goal of spin is therefore to provide a simple, user-friendly,
extendable interface for common development tasks. It comes with a few
common build commands out the box, but can easily be customized per
project. The impetus behind developing the tool was the mass
migration of scientific Python libraries (SciPy, scikit-image, and
NumPy, etc.) to Meson, after distutils was deprecated.

spin is used by scipy for running tests.

This RFP supersedes RFP#1062827, which requested packaging for
pydevtool, previously used by scipy for running tests.
scipy has since deprecated pydevtool in favour of spin.

Note that a spin package already exists in debian.
This is an older software validation tool, not related to python-spin.

To be maintained by the Debian Python Team (alongside scipy).

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