[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#894755: sunpy: autopkgtest fails since python3.6 dropped depends on python3-distutils

[Paul Gevers]

Source: sunpy
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: normal
User: ci-team at tracker.debian.org

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Since the upload of python3.6 version 3.6.5~rc1-2, it doesn't depend on
python3-distutils anymore. Your autopkgtest¹ fails since than with the
following error:

autopkgtest [10:53:26]: test command2: cd $ADTTMP && python3 -c "import sunpy; exit(sunpy.self_test(args=\"-k not figure and not online\"))"
autopkgtest [10:53:26]: test command2: [-----------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sunpy/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from sunpy.util.config import load_config, print_config
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sunpy/util/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from sunpy.util.util import *
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sunpy/util/util.py", line 12, in <module>
    from sunpy.extern import six
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sunpy/extern/six.py", line 8, in <module>
    from distutils.version import StrictVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

I don't know if this is an issue of the test (adding the dependency there can
fix the issue) or if sunpy's dependencies need updating.

There are rumors that one shouldn't use distutils as a runtime dependency and
one should use sysconfig instead.

Paul

¹ https://ci.debian.net/packages/s/sunpy/unstable/amd64/

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'testing'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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