[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#900485: Bug#900485: python-pbcore: FTBFS and Debci failure with NumPy 1.14

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Afif,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 03:41:11AM -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: ERROR: Invalid file produced:
> >/tmp/tmpveTAsa.subreadset.xml
> >
> >Before I start diving into this:  Afif, upstream seems to have released
> >1.5.0 which might be worth a try.  While I asked for creating according
> >release tags[2] I remember you said that upstream does not care much
> >about this metadata.  I wonder whether we should possibly use mode=git
> >inside the watch file, inject version 1.5.0 into packaging Git, cross
> >fingers that the issue might be fixed and if not report the issue
> >upstream.
> >
> 
> I believe that error had to do with the package requiring an older version of some dependency. At least, the error I was seeing at the time was for that reason, which prevented me from uploading.

So we can either skip those tests (no idea how important is this for
general functionality) or give 1.5.0 a try.  What do you think is
the better strategy?  (And what do you think about watch mode=git?)

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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