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

[Afif Elghraoui]

On June 25, 2018 5:07:48 AM EDT, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
>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?

I think we can give 1.5.0 a try, but it might have the same problem.

>  (And what do you think about watch mode=git?)
>

I don't know much about it, but I don't have any strong preference here.

regards
Afif