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

[Graham Inggs]

Source: python-pbcore
Version: 1.2.11+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: needs-update

Hi Maintainer

Since the recent upload of python-numpy on 2018-05-05, python-pbcore has 
been failing its autopkgtests [1] and has now also started to FTBFS in 
unstable [2] with several errors similar to the following:

FAIL: test_referenceInfo (test_pbdataset.TestDataSet)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/build/1st/python-pbcore-1.2.11+dfsg/tests/test_pbdataset.py", 
line 1407, in test_referenceInfo
     "(27, 27, 'E.faecalis.1', 'E.faecalis.1', 1482, "
AssertionError: "(27, 27, 'E.faecalis.1', 'E.faecalis.1', 1482, 
'a1a59c267ac1341e5a12bce7a7d37bcb', 0, 0)" != "(27, 27, 'E.faecalis.1', 
'E.faecalis.1', 1482, 'a1a59c267ac1341e5a12bce7a7d37bcb', 0L, 0L)"
-------------------- >> begin captured logging << --------------------
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Opening ReadSet resources
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Done opening resources
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Updating counts
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Populating index
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Processing resource indices
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Filtering reference entries
pbcore.io.dataset.DataSetIO: DEBUG: Done populating index

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/python-pbcore/unstable/amd64/
[2] 
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/python-pbcore.html