> Checking reverse dependencies... > # Broken Depends: > pydoctor: python-pydoctor > pywbem: python-pywbem
I have now taken care of these via NMU. It turns out that neither package strictly depends on epydoc. The python-pywbem package declared a dependency and a build dependency, but did not seem to reference epydoc anywhere (not in imports or commands or anything). The module imports fine in a chroot without python-epydoc installed. The python-pydoctor package already contains code to make usage of epydoc optional. If it's not installed, the HTML renderer falls back on a plain text representation. I removed the dependency there, and it works fine. I'll be looking next at the packages that declare a build dependency on epydoc. My intent there will be to remove the build dependency and simply not generate the API documentation as part of the package build process. Since basically no one has bothered to respond to these bugs,, I have to assume that it will be better to have the packages still in Debian (but without API documentation) than removed completely. I will NMU these packages one at a time as I adjust them. I won't be giving any notice about my NMUs, since I already followed up in mid-June to announce my intent to remove epydoc. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <prono...@debian.org>
