[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#995689: Bug#995689: python-reportlab breaks autopkgtest of python-biopython

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: reassign -1 src:python-biopython 1.78+dfsg-5
Control: affects -1 src:python-reportlab 3.5.67-2
Control: tags -1 confirmed

Hi there,

Graham Inggs, on 2021-10-04:
> I noticed that python-biopython already has a Recommends on
> python3-renderpm.  One solution would be to bump this to a Depends.
> Alternatively, python3-renderpm could be added to python3-reportlab as
> a Depends.

Thanks Graham for your report and analysis!  I have been
assessing the situation on my end, and assuming reportlab can be
used without renderpm, I think that this is a probably a bug on
python3-biopython control information.

As far as I could see, the test suite can run either with both
packages, or none of them, so demoting python3-reportlab to
Suggests, same as python3-renderpm, could also do the trick.
That being said the issue would also be at risk to propagate to
users of biopython if python3-reportlab is installed without
python3-renderpm on their hosts.  Thus, bumping python3-renderpm
to Depends sounds to me to be the most appropriate approach as
well.

Have a nice day,  :)
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