[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#950929: python-biom-format: FTBFS with pandas 1.0: test failures

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

Source: python-biom-format
Version: 2.1.8+dfsg-1
Control: block 950430 by -1

With pandas 1.0 from experimental:

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ERROR: test_to_dataframe (biom.tests.test_table.TableTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/build/python-biom-format-2.1.8+dfsg/.pybuild/cpython3_3.8_biom-format/build/biom/tests/test_table.py", 
line 1476, in test_to_dataframe
     exp = pd.SparseDataFrame(np.array([[0.0, 1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0, 5.0]]),
TypeError: SparseDataFrame() takes no arguments

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ERROR: test_to_dataframe_is_sparse (biom.tests.test_table.TableTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/build/python-biom-format-2.1.8+dfsg/.pybuild/cpython3_3.8_biom-format/build/biom/tests/test_table.py", 
line 1484, in test_to_dataframe_is_sparse
     df = example_table.to_dataframe()
   File 
"/build/python-biom-format-2.1.8+dfsg/.pybuild/cpython3_3.8_biom-format/build/biom/table.py", 
line 4053, in to_dataframe
     return constructor(mat, index=index, columns=columns)
TypeError: SparseDataFrame() takes no arguments

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Ran 343 tests in 5.493s