Source: pyfits Severity: wishlist Control: block -1 by 844085 Dear Aurelien,
as I wrote on the debian-astro mailing list, I am planning to remove pywcs because it is completely obsoleted by astropy. The same argument is however valid for pyfits, which also will not see any upstream love anymore. IMO the release of Stretch is a good opportunity to force the users into the use of astropy, especially as it is as easy as replacing import pyfits by import astropy.io.fits as pyfits Pyfits has three reverse dependencies (astlib, python-cpl, and pyscanfcs), with the first to being optional (first option there is astropy already). For pyscanfs, I files a bug #844085 asking to switch to astropy. Once they did the warp, would you also consider to remove? IMO that would help to keep Debian clean from obsolete packages. Best regards Ole