[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#917466: python-numpy breaks astropy autopkgtest

[Ole Streicher]

Control: notfound -1 python-numpy
Control: tags -1 pending

On 28.12.18 19:50, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> this is something astropy will have to update to. i see there is a
> 3.1 release, maybe packaging that will address this issue, else the 
> astropy maintainers would like to engage with upstream.

This is a compatibility problem with the new numpy version, which is not
fixed in astropy 3.1. However, there is a backport of the relevant
patch, which is going to be included in the upcoming astropy release.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/astropy/blob/master/debian/patches/Ensure-we-support-the-new-matmul-ufunc-in-numpy-1.16.patch

Cheers

Ole