[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#783573: python-astropy: Missing file prevents SAMP functionality in astropy from working

[Don Barry]

Package: python-astropy
Version: 0.4.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer

The use of SAMP functionality to talk to virtual-observatory applications such
as Aladin, Topcat, etc, is supported through the astropy.vo.samp part of
astropy.  However, instantiating a client or server, e.g. for the former:

from astropy.vo.samp import SAMPIntegratedClient

produces an exception because the file
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/astropy/vo/samp/data/astropy_icon.png
is not found.  This is a packaging error.  It also applies to the version in
experimental (1.0-1~exp) and the python3-astropy modules.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-astropy depends on:
ii  libc6                             2.19-18
ii  libcfitsio2                       3.370-2
ii  liberfa1                          1.1.1-1
ii  libexpat1                         2.1.0-6+b3
ii  libwcs4                           4.24-1
ii  python                            2.7.9-1
ii  python-numpy [python-numpy-abi9]  1:1.8.2-2
pn  python:any                        <none>

python-astropy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-astropy suggests:
ii  libxml2-utils       2.9.1+dfsg1-5
pn  python-astropy-doc  <none>
pn  python-h5py         <none>
ii  python-scipy        0.14.0-2

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