[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#847970: sunpy FTBFS in stretch due to missing skimage

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 06:15:34PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Hi Adrian,

Hi Ole,

> I do not completely understand what the goal of this bug is: The missing
> build dependency is already noted in the package, and an autoremoval is
> filed (and sent out to me as the maintainer). So, I am already noted by
> the problem, and I don't see what the additional bug gives here except
> the need to close one RC bug more.

The current autoremoval is for bugs already fixed in unstable in joblib 
and statsmodels - these are unrelated issues.

> Wouldn't it be simpler just to mark #840589 as "affects: src:sunpy"?

This wouldn't trigger autoremoval for the fact that skimage is not in 
testing.

> Best regards
> 
> Ole

cu
Adrian

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