[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#960573: python3-yt: h5py.File requires access mode to be specified

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reassign -1 src:python3-yt 3.6.0-2
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 ftbfs

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:08:59PM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Package: python3-yt
> Version: 3.6.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> h5py is changing upstream to require the mode ('r', 'w', etc) to be
> specified when h5py.File is used.  The Debian version of h5py has
> already applied the upstream commits making this mandatory.
> 
> This affects yt in TestImageArray.test_image_array_hdf5 and test_h5_io,
> specifically write_hdf5 in yt/units/yt_array.py line 965
> 
> They seem to be write tests so probably you want h5py.File(filename, 'w')
>...

This is also a FTBFS:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/yt.html

cu
Adrian