JWST notebook photoutils.patch error

[SebastianPrehn]

photoutils.patch error

When building the dev build of the jwst-notebook, the build fails with the following relevant error code:

7.642     from .base import BaseDifferential, BaseRepresentation, BaseRepresentationOrDifferential
7.642   File "/opt/conda/envs/python3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/astropy/coordinates/representation/base.py", line 12, in <module>
7.642     from astropy.coordinates.angles import Angle
7.642   File "/opt/conda/envs/python3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/astropy/coordinates/angles/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
7.642     from .utils import *
7.642   File "/opt/conda/envs/python3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/astropy/coordinates/angles/utils.py", line 21, in <module>
7.642     from astropy.coordinates.representation import (
7.642 ImportError: cannot import name 'SphericalRepresentation' from partially initialized module 'astropy.coordinates.representation' (most likely due to a circular import) (/opt/conda/envs/python3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/astropy/coordinates/representation/__init__.py)

starting on this line in the code

nbi-jupyter-docker-stacks/jwst-notebook/Dockerfile.j2

Line 95 in eac4bce

RUN mamba run -n python3 python /tmp/photutils.patch \

@gbrammer You initially created this Notebook with the file photoutils.patch and I wanted to ask if you had any idea for a fix to this, as we would like to be able to use the new JupyterLab 4.0.11 introduced in eac4bce for its security fixes.

Possible solutions

When looking at photoutils install, it recommends conda install -c conda-forge photutils which could be a potential solution, unless the patch does something specific and is not just legacy at this point?