Hi Georges and Debian-Science, the "Sympy" package, and all its reverse dependencies are going to be removed on Jan 29, which is not very long ahead. The reason is a number of bugs with the following dependency chain:
sympy: * build-depends on python-sphinxcontrib.blockdiag python-sphinxcontrib.blockdiag: * depends on python-blockdiag (source: blockdiag) blockdiag: * has RC #848748 with no attempts to solve since opened (errors in build time tests) * is not team maintained and has no Debian git repository * (build-) depends somehow (could not find out how) on execnet execnet: * has RC bugs #840823, #846951 and #846952 (errors in build time tests) * is not team maintained * is RFA The mentioned build dependency of sympy seems to be optional (builds fine without it), and I also have no idea of how to solve the RC bugs in blockdiag and execnet. So save sympy from removal, I would propose to remove the dependency as long as the RC bugs remain unfixed. I can do that in the next days as a team upload. Any objections here? Better proposals? Best regards Ole
