Project:Python/Virtuals

This page describes the virtual packages introduced by the Python team.

Virtual packages for backports
Those virtual packages are used to reference the Python modules which are available in newer versions of Python and that were backported to older versions of Python using external packages.

Those virtuals are to be used in packages which require the specific module and support Python implementations not having it built-in. If your package does not need to support old versions of Python, you don't need any dependency for it.