[Python-modules-team] Bug#613282: python-scrapy: spurious build-dependency on python-jinja

[Ignace Mouzannar]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 22:05, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
>
> python-scrapy build-depends on python-jinja, but (as far as I can tell) this
> package is not used at build time.

Hi Jakub,

Sorry for the delay of my response; I was AFK for the past two weeks.

As per the scrapy documentation [1], the jinja Python module must be installed 
in order to generate the documentation.

However, as you pointed out, it seems that this dependency is superfluous. 
The jinja module is actually needed by python-sphinx (which depends on 
python-jinjia2), but not directly by the python-scrapy build process.

Therefore, I will be removing this dependency in the upcoming upload.

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Cheers,
 Ignace M

[1] http://hg.scrapy.org/scrapy/file/9130d7c22885/docs/README