[Python-modules-team] Bug#772572: RFP: python-pyroute2 -- pure Python netlink and Linux network configuration library

[Axel Beckert]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : python-pyroute2
  Version         : 0.3.3
  Upstream Author : Peter V. Saveliev <peter at svinota.eu>
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2
* License         : GPLv2+
  Description     : pure Python netlink and Linux network configuration library

Pyroute2 requires only Python stdlib, no 3rd party libraries.

The library provides several modules:

* Netlink protocol implementations (RTNetlink, TaskStats, etc)
* Simple netlink socket object, that can be used in poll/select
* Network configuration module IPRoute provides API that in some way
  resembles ip/tc functionality
* IPDB is an async transactional database of Linux network settings

Comment:

Pyroute2 is planned to become a dependency of dhcpy6d, hence I'd be
happy if someone with more Python module packaging experience than me
could package it.

There is already some RPM packaging at
https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2/blob/master/packages/RedHat/python-pyroute2.spec
(which is also the only place where I found the "+" in "GPLv2+"
mentioned so far).