[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1057543: astroquery: FTBFS: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

[Ole Streicher]

Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

The problem here is that the python3-astropy-helpers package is not 
ready for Python 3.12, see #1058104.

https://bugs.debian.org/1058104

Astropy-helpers is EOL upstream, therefore I think we should no longer 
rely on that package.

For astroquery, there is a merged Pull Request for Python 3.12 compatibility

https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2838

This includes switching astropy-helpers to a personally-maintained 
version. IMO the best way would be to include that directly in the 
astroquery package until astroquery gets rid of astropy-helpers completely.

Cheers

Ole