skimage is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Josh Warner]

Lena is the problem. We're going to have to remove that from the package.

OpenCV had the exact same issue, see 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794856

Three potential solutions come to mind: 

   - Remove `lena` from the package, raising an error informing the user 
   the image is not free and directing them to `astronaut`.
   - Simply alias all queries for `lena` to `astronaut`, with a warning.
   - Instead of loading from disk, have `imread` obtain this image from a 
   permalinked URL. Ideally an aliased one we can redirect if a host dies. We 
   could have a couple fallback URLs, too. Biggest question is what to do if 
   no internet connection is available.

I favor the first or third solutions.

Josh

On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 11:52:30 PM UTC-5, stefanv wrote:
>
> Can I convince anyone to look at the following? This has escalated in 
> priority now.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Debian testing autoremoval watch" <noreply at release.debian.org>
> Date: Aug 14, 2015 9:40 PM
> Subject: skimage is marked for autoremoval from testing
> To: <skimage at packages.debian.org>
> Cc: 
>
> skimage 0.10.1-2 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2015-09-20
>
> It is affected by these RC bugs:
> 794859: skimage: non DFSG file in the source package
>
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