Source: python-subprocess32 Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team Uploaders: Ilias Tsitsimpis , Daniel Stender Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), dh-python, python-all-dev, python-setuptools Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/subprocess32 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-subprocess32.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-subprocess32 Package: python-subprocess32 Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: backport of the Py3 stdlib subprocess module for Py2 This is a backport of the Python 3.2 subprocess module to replace the stdlib subprocess module of Python versions 2.4 through 2.7, strongly recommended for POSIX systems. It includes a C extension used internally to handle the code path between fork() and exec(), which is more reliable when an application uses threads. Timeout support backported from Python 3.3 is also included. On the background, see PEP-324.