[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#919586: python-biom-format: binary packages unnecessarily large

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: python-biom-format
Version: 2.1.7+dfsg-1
Severity: minor

The addition of test data to the python*-biom-format binary packages
increased their size from a modest 1.8 MB apiece to a hefty 53 MB each.
I'd strongly encourage splitting this test data out into a separate
architecture-independent binary package on which python*-biom-format do
*not* strictly depend.  (AIUI, the autopkgtest control file can declare
this package to be an additional test-time dependency.)

For that matter, I see that these binary packages both also ship roughly
1.2 MB of Cython *.c output that (TTBOMK) isn't necessary to install at
all.  (Likewise for the Cython *.pyx source files, though those are at
least much smaller.)

Could somebody please take a look?

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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