Package: python-tifffile Version: 20170929-1 Severity: important Python's tifffile is available in two forms:
1) download as individual files at https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/ 2) python package at PyPI https://pypi.org/project/tifffile/ Debian makes use of the individual files via a mirror at https://github.com/malaterre/tifffile which seems to exist for Debian only. Because it's not installed as a package, setuptools will not "see" it and report it as not being installed. The effect of this is that installing a package dependent on tifffile, will require installation of the package, even if the module is already available. Effectively, the following needs to succeed: $ python -c 'import pkg_resources; pkg_resources.get_distribution("tifffile")' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 476, in get_distribution dist = get_provider(dist) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 352, in get_provider return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 895, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 781, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'tifffile' distribution was not found and is required by the application The change would make 1) the Debian package play nicer with other python packages 2) the github repo no longer necessary 3) easier to track dependencies (looking through the changelog file in Debian sources, seems that it was a problem a few times) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages python-tifffile depends on: ii libc6 2.27-8 ii python [python-importlib] 2.7.15-3 ii python-concurrent.futures 3.2.0-2 ii python-enum34 1.1.6-2 ii python-numpy [python-numpy-abi9] 1:1.14.5-1+b1 ii python2 [python-importlib] 2.7.15-3 Versions of packages python-tifffile recommends: ii python-matplotlib 2.2.2-4+b1 python-tifffile suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
