[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#947109: sunpy: FTBFS with Python 3.8

[Graham Inggs]

Source: sunpy
Version: 1.0.3-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs patch

Hi Maintainer

A recent rebuild of sunpy with Python 3.8 failed [1].
I've copied what I hope is the relevant part of the log below.

A patch is available from Ubuntu [2].

Regards
Graham


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=sunpy
[2] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/448213313/sunpy_1.0.3-2_1.0.3-2ubuntu2.diff.gz


_________________________________ test_sysinfo _________________________________

    def test_sysinfo():
        output = sunpy.util.get_sys_dict()
        assert isinstance(output, dict)
>       sunpy.system_info()

sunpy/util/tests/test_sysinfo.py:7:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    def system_info():
        """
        Takes dictionary from sys_info() and prints the contents in an
attractive
        fashion.
        """
        sys_prop = get_sys_dict()

        # title
        print("==============================")
        print("SunPy Installation Information")
        print("==============================\n")

        # general properties
        print("#######")
        print("General")
        print("#######")
        # OS and architecture information

        for sys_info in ['Time', 'System', 'Processor', 'Arch', 'SunPy']:
            print('{} : {}'.format(sys_info, sys_prop[sys_info]))

        if sys_prop['System'] == "Linux":
>           distro = " ".join(platform.linux_distribution())
E           AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute
'linux_distribution'

sunpy/util/sysinfo.py:121: AttributeError