Bug#773430: ITP: python-descartes

[Johan Van de Wauw]

X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>

* Package name    : python-descartes
  Version         : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Sean Gillies, descartesdevelopers
* URL             :
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/descartes,https://bitbucket.org/sgillies/descartes
* License         : BSD-3
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Matplotlib extension to work with geometric objects

Descartes allows the usage of geometric objects as matplotlib paths and patches.

Descartes is a dependency of geopandas, for which I filed an ITP yesterday.

I intent to maintain this package in Debian GIS.