[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1122955: pynpoint: incompatible with numpy 2.x

[Arian Ott]

Hello Stuart,

thanks for raising this.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:44:19 +1100 Stuart Prescott <stuart at debian.org> wrote:
> pynpoint is not compatible with numpy 2.x - it makes use of methods that
> are long-since removed from numpy. Running the upstream test suite
> shows that the package is quite broken at present:
> 
> > 143 failed, 80 passed, 14 warnings, 1 error
> 
> The Debian packaging for pynpoint doesn't run any tests at build time and,
> as noted in #1035214, also does not run any autopkgtest tests. Adding these
> tests in would have spotted this problem over a year ago when numpy 2.x was
> uploaded to Debian.

I have spoken to upstream about this and the problem is that the pytests of 
pynpoint all require external assets which cannot be reproduced by us. 

https://github.com/PynPoint/PynPoint/issues/432

The absence of autopkgtest isn't ideal. To fix that I suggest to implement a 
smoke test which tests pynpoint as a package. That way we have an autopkgtest 
which fails whenever pynpoint fails. Not ideal either but at least a step in 
the right direction..

What do you think? 

Best regards, 
-- 
Arian Ott
arian.ott at ieee.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 228 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-astro-maintainers/attachments/20260303/5c207c9f/attachment.sig>