[Python-modules-team] Bug#719770: python3-pyfits and python3-astropy-legacy: error when trying to install together

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, August 15, 2013 08:27:33 you wrote:
> Package: python3-astropy-legacy,python3-pyfits
> Version: python3-astropy-legacy/0.2.4-2
> Version: python3-pyfits/1:3.1.2-1+b1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite.
> ..
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
> 
>   /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyfits/__init__.py

In  python-astropy-legacy this was resolved by adding a conflicts so the 
packages aren't co-installable.  I think that's the miminal solution for  
python3-astropy-legacy, but even better would be for astropy to use the system 
provided pyfits.  I don't think this can be reasonably resolved in the pyfits 
package, so I'm going to close the bug against it.

Scott K