[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#837008: python-astropy: FTBFS: test failure

[Ole Streicher]

Control: reassign -1 src:python-scipy 0.18.0-1
Control: affects -1 python-astropy
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6420
Control: tags -1 patch


>> =================================== FAILURES ===================================
>> _________________________ test_circmean_against_scipy __________________________
>>
>>     @pytest.mark.skipif('not HAS_SCIPY')
>>     def test_circmean_against_scipy():
>>         # testing against scipy.stats.circmean function
>>         data = np.random.uniform(-np.pi, np.pi, size=(100, 5))
>>         answer = scipy.stats.circmean(data, np.pi, -np.pi)
>>>       assert_equal(np.around(answer, 2), np.around(circmean(data), 2))
>> E       AssertionError: 
>> E       Items are not equal:
>> E        ACTUAL: -4.3099999999999996
>> E        DESIRED: 1.97

This is actually a regression bug in scipy; see the github issue. A
patch is available at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/6543

Cheers

Ole