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

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hello,

On June 22, 2018 8:54:03 AM EDT, Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi Afif,
>
>On 22-06-18 14:49, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> What isn't clear to me so far is if falcon remains working with the
>> latest version of python-networkx, or if it is now broken. In the
>latter
>> case, a bug in the BTS with the appropriate severity would be nice.
>> 
>> Just a reminder, you have about 1 day left to prevent python-networkx
>> from migrating to testing.
>
>falcon needs updating anyways as your test is run during build and your
>package now FTBFS¹. Do you consider this a bug against falcon or
>against
>python-networkx? (In general it will be considered a falcon bug once
>python-networkx migrates).
>

It's a falcon bug, but there's a newer upstream that probably doesn't have this problem. I tried to update the package a while ago, but it requires more time than I had at the moment because the build system changed significantly and part of the code base is now written in nim.

regards
Afif

>
>¹
>https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/falcon.html