[Debian-astro-maintainers] astropy/3.0.2-1 breaks healpy/1.10.3-2 autopkgtest in testing

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Paul,

On 15.05.2018 22:16, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 15-05-18 21:58, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> On 15.05.2018 21:53, Singer, Leo P. (GSFC-6610) wrote:
>>> Are we sure that the CI failure is due to the astropy update and not
>>> a new version of numpy? At a quick glance, it looks like the test
>>> errors are all doctest mismatches due to slight differences in Numpy
>>> array formatting.
> 
> @python-numpy maintainers: is this array formatting of Numpy intentional?

I am not a numpy maintainer, but: They are aware to break many tests.

See the release notes:

| The ``str`` and ``repr`` of ndarrays and numpy scalars have been
| changed in a variety of ways. These changes are likely to break
| downstream user's doctests.

https://sources.debian.org/src/python-numpy/1:1.14.3-2/doc/release/1.14.0-notes.rst/#L243-L247

They provide a backward compatibility option; however I am not sure
whether this is useful.

Cheers

Ole