Hi, I have reported the issue upstream[1] and pointed to Aurelien Jarno's analysis explicitly.
BTW, I'd consider the packaging fitting into two teams: Either Debian Science or DPMT. Having a packaging repository outside of git.debian.org and noticing it is lagging behind the actual packaging is not very motivating to contribute. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/2398 -- http://fam-tille.de