[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#995781: Bug#995781: python-sqlsoup autopkgtest fails with SQLAlchemy 1.4.23+ds1-2

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

Am Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 10:43:20AM +0200 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> Mike Bayer, on 2021-10-08:
> > you woujld have better luck changing epigrass to use automap instead:   https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/extensions/automap.html
> 
> Thanks Mike for your recommendation!  This is very useful for me
> and others who might stumble on this bug entry.
> 
> Thomas, when trying to see whether epigrass could easily be
> ported away of sqlsoup, I ended up with other issues documented
> in bug #995966.  I don't know how much time is of the essence to
> you, but I don't expect a timely resolution of the issues at
> play.  A reasonable course of action might be to drop epigrass
> and python-sqlsoup of Testing sooner than later, for the time
> being.  What do you think?

BTW, the epigrass author is *very* responsive to replace modules and I'd
like to recommend contacting him.  (If I'm wrong with my statement I can
try via my Brasilian friends. ;-))

Speaking about epigrass I realise that we should remove it from
testing anyway:


$ /usr/bin/epirunner
...
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'dash' distribution was not found and is required by epigrass


My last contact with upstream was about different modules for graphing
epigrass results - but after removing others he considered dash the bare
minimum ... and we do not have this.  Volunteers to package dash are
extremely welcome.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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