[Python-apps-team] Bug#794918: cython is uninstallable in unstable

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: cython
Version: 0.22.1-1
Severity: serious


As of today in a clean sid chroot:

# apt install cython
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfuse2 libpcre16-3 libpcre32-3 libsepol1-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  cython-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apt build-essential debfoster debhelper g++ g++-4.9 g++-5 gcc gcc-4.9 gcc-5 gettext
  gettext-base groff-base intltool-debian libapt-pkg4.12 libapt-pkg4.16 libasan1
  libasan2 libasprintf0v5 libcc1-0 libcilkrts5 libcroco3 libfuse-dev libgc1c2
  libgcc-4.9-dev libgcc-5-dev libicu52 liblsan0 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0v5
  libselinux1-dev libstdc++-4.9-dev libstdc++-5-dev libstdc++6 libtsan0 libubsan0
  libxml2 man-db po-debconf shared-mime-info
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cython
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt libapt-pkg4.16 (due to apt) libstdc++6 (due to apt)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 40 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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