quick Q to Matthias Re: Sympy(+sagemath+nipy+~30 more) removal ahead

[Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:

> > missing python{,3}-olefile in Build-Depends.

> There is no such package in unstable - was this a typo?

may be confusion is due to my shell rotten fingers typing? ;)

$> apt-cache policy python{,3}-olefile
python-olefile:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.44-1
  Version table:
     0.44-1 600
        600 http://http.debian.net/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        600 http://http.debian.net/debian sid/main i386 Packages
python3-olefile:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.44-1
  Version table:
     0.44-1 600
        600 http://http.debian.net/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        600 http://http.debian.net/debian sid/main i386 Packages


my guess is that divergence was due to severe novelty of that package:

olefile (0.44-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

 -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:52:45 +0100

olefile (0.43-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Initial release (closes: #850404).

 -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Jan 2017 07:36:25 +0100


> (For me the only failed tests were the two in the bug, and just the patch
> was enough to fix that.)

and I guess recent python-pil pruned olefile from the depends  (I believe it
was there in prev version)

although I don't see any corresponding changelog entry for that in
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/pillow/pillow_4.0.0-2_changelog

Matthias -- could you clarify if olefile depends was consciously removed or
should we complain with a bug report? ;-)  unfortunately there is no VCS
defined for python-pil to go through the laundry:

# apt-cache policy python-pil
python-pil:
  Installed: 4.0.0-2
  Candidate: 4.0.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.0-2 500
        500 http://127.0.0.1:3142/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# apt-cache show python-pil | grep olefile


$> debcheckout python-pil
No repository found for package python-pil.


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