[Python-modules-team] Bug#756587: python3-pyfits: fails to configure, syntax error

[Marc Glisse]

Package: python3-pyfits
Version: 1:3.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

during apt-get upgrade this morning, I got:

Setting up python3-pyfits (1:3.3-1) ...
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyfits/scripts/fitscheck.py", line 135
    except UserWarning, w:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing package python3-pyfits (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armhf
powerpc

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python3-pyfits depends on:
ii  libc6                               2.19-7
ii  libcfitsio3                         3.340-3
ii  python3                             3.4.1-1
ii  python3-numpy [python3-numpy-abi9]  1:1.8.1-1+b1

python3-pyfits recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python3-pyfits suggests:
ii  pyfits-utils  1:3.3-1

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