Bug#730869: Please upgrade python-pywcs from 1.11 to 1.10.1 or better

[Ole Streicher]

https://trac.assembla.com/astrolib#pywcs calls the current release as
"1.10-4.7", but the source links to 1.11-4.8.2, which is the base I use
here and which I would still consider as current. Another history is
given in

docs.astropy.org/en/stable/wcs/history.html

which marks 1.11 as the current version.

However the idea of astropy is to replace the independent packages. If a
new package from pypi is going to be included in Debian and depends on
new features, I would strongly recommend to port it to astropy, which
should be quite easy: just replace

import pywcs

with

import astropy.wcs as pywcs

(and similarly for pyfits, if needed).

So, I would not see a big need to downgrade to 1.10. However, if you can
backport the changes needed, I will happily create a patched 1.11 version.

Best regards

Ole