[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#959138: nipy: resolve nipy autopkgtest failure due to numpy testing decorators

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:50:07AM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 15:22:37 -0500 Matthieu Clemenceau
> <matthieu.clemenceau at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Source: nipy
> > Followup-For: Bug #959138
> > User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy ubuntu-patch
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > While working on numpy proposed-migration for groovy, I realize nipy
> > autopkgtest was failing. It appears that numpy changed the pass to the
> > module decorators from numpy.testing.decorators to
> > numpy.testing._private.decorators.
> 
> OMG NO! how can you think that importing from a _private submodule is
> the right approach?!
> 
> There's a PR open upstream since more than a month on how to
> *properly* address this in nipy:
> https://github.com/nipy/nipy/pull/458/files
> 
> Can someone from the Med team apply that PR to the packaging and upload?

I've imported the PR as quilt patch but it does not apply cleanly and
does not solve the issue completely.  There are several build time
issues.  I have no time to track this down further in the next couple of
days.  Yaroslav, can you have a look?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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