[Debian-med-packaging] python-networkx/2.1-1 appears to break falcon/1.8.8-1 autopkgtest in testing

[Afif Elghraoui]

On June 9, 2018 12:48:55 AM EDT, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>Hi Afif,
>
>On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:41:11PM +0000, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> With a recent upload of python-networkx the autopkgtest of falcon
>> version 1.8.8-1 started to fail in testing. See:
>> https://ci.debian.net/packages/f/falcon/testing/amd64/
>> and
>> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=python-networkx
>> 
>> More information about this email and the reason of it can be found
>on
>>
>https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
>
>Falcon is lagging behind upstream since some time.  Are there any
>issues
>with the 2.x series?  You have added "Build-Depends: nim" in your last
>commit which I never touched.  So if the solution for the issue Paul
>brought up here might be a new upstream - do you think it might be
>worth
>upgrading or could it be possible that it would be easier to fix the
>issue in the old version?
>

The build system just changed significantly with the newer versions and so all the patches need to be revisited and the packaging adjusted. This seems to happen frequently with all the PacBio software.

Afif