[Python-modules-team] Bug#1001386: python3-pycifrw: missing dependencies

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Martin,

Indeed, it seems that ply and numpy are used by the optional dREL
functionality. Nevertheless, the main module code is developed in a way
to work without numpy as well. Thus I am not sure whether hard Depends
on rather heavy python3-numpy (it pulls in blas and lapack) is appropriate.

To my knowledge, PyCIFRW is a CIF format parser. Thus I assume that not
every application wanting to read in CIF will perform math on it. I
would rather put python3-numpy in Recommends or Suggests.

Best,
Andrius