On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > If this is provided by the standard library as this link implies, why do > we need this package? Is it a python2 backport? In that case it should > be named "python2-typing" and you'll need to specify #:python as argument. >
It is a backport for python versions older than 3.5 I tried building one of the packages that indicated typing as a dependency, and it built without typing being an input. I will ignore this package for now, and resubmit it at a later time, if necessary when I get to the next batch of packages that rely on the current series -- Frederick M. Muriithi