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Re: Several questions regarding package tifffile

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Hi Ghislain,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 08:39:00AM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> Le lun. 9 avr. 2018 à 08:46, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> a écrit :
> 
> > I realised that upstream of tifffile[1] switched to Python3.  When
> > inspecting the package I somehow think that its main purpose is rather a
> > user application than a Python module and thus I would rather rename the
> > binary from python-tifffile to tifffile than python3-tifffile.  What do
> > you think?
> >
> > As per [2] I added dh-python to the Build-Depends but it seems I would
> > need python-minimal in addition to get /usr/bin/pyversions.  For me it
> > is a bit strange to realise that this basic functionality is not provided
> > by dh-python "Depends: python-minimal".  Am I missing something?
> >
> > It also seems that a Build-Depends: python3-distutils and if I add it it
> > tries to do "python setup.py clean -a" which is stupid since there is no
> > setup.py (and also no python but only python3).  I wonder whether I'm
> > missing something here as well in this very simple package which does
> > not seem to work well with dh-python.
> >
> > BTW, I'd be *really* happy if somebody from Python team would take over
> > this package into Python packaging team.  I just adopted it from a
> > former Debian Med team member but it is not Debian Med specific at all
> > and I have no real interest in this package.
> >
> 
> I could have a look at it.

Did you manage to do this?

> Do you reckon why the package was needed
> originally? I am surprised it landed in d-med, so perhaps there is another
> package needing it?

No idea.  It was started by Mathieu Malaterre who left the team.  Feel
free to move to DPMT.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


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