Re: Problem between asdf and sunpy

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi Yannick,

Yannick Roehlly <yannick.roehlly@gmail.com> writes:
> On my system, trying to save an astropy table to asdf raises this :
>
> DistributionNotFound: The 'parfive[ftp]>=1.1.0' distribution was not found and 
> is required by the application
>
> This happens when asdf parses the asdf_extensions entry points and try to 
> execute them.  This can be manually done with:
>
> for ep in iter_entry_points(group="asdf_extensions"):
>     print(ep)
>     ext = ep.load()
>
> Installing python3-parfive does not solve the problem because the package does 
> not contain the ftp module and the error becomes:
>
> UnknownExtra: parfive 1.1.1 has no such extra feature 'ftp'
>
> Do you think I should report the bug against asdf or sunpy?

I yesterday looked a bit into this myself, and I think it is the sunpy
package, which at the end tries to require parfive[ftp]. Best would be
if you could open a bug there; it it turns out wrong, it still can be
re-assigned.

Cheers

Ole