[Git][debian-gis-team/mipp][master] 2 commits: Relax tests on metadata

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Bas,

Il 16/07/2018 09:48, Bas Couwenberg ha scritto:
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> On 2018-07-16 09:19, Antonio Valentino wrote:
>> Commits:
>> 787220f5 by Antonio Valentino at 2018-07-16T07:17:00+00:00
>> Relax tests on metadata
> 
> Note that there are still syntax issues, although non-fatal:
> 
>  WARNING: autodoc: failed to import module 'mipp.xsar.mda'; the
> following exception was raised:
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/ext/autodoc/importer.py",
> line 152, in import_module
>      __import__(modname)
>    File "/build/mipp-1.1.0/mipp/xsar/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
>      from mipp.xsar import sat
>    File "/build/mipp-1.1.0/mipp/xsar/sat.py", line 121
>      raise IOError, "No such directory: %s" % opt['dir']
>                  ^
>  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> A bunch of these are logged.
> 
> I've sponsored the upload, but you may want to fix these in -2.

Thanks Bas, I didn't noticed it.

The problem is that recently sphinx-build switched to python3 by
default, while mipp is python2 only.
It seems that upstream authors are not interested to port mipp to
python3 (see [1]). They recommend to switch to satpy [2] that provides
many (but not all) features of mipp and python-mpop.

I started working on a satpy packaging (I should add open an ITP
actually), but for the specific problem of mipp I would go with one of
the following two options:

1. simply stop building and distributing sphinx documentation for mipp
   (please note that mipp doc don't seems to be particularly relevant)
2. build-depend on python-sphinx only (non python3-sphinx) to force the
   use of the python2 version of the sphinx-build script.
   This option should raise a lintian warning that we could override.

Do you have any other option to suggest?


[1] https://github.com/pytroll/mipp/issues/11
[2] https://github.com/pytroll/satpy


cheers

-- 
Antonio Valentino