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

[Andreas Tille]

Am Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:50:44AM +0200 schrieb 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

... as Étienne reported in #995966 (as I realise now and should have
been reported way earlier - sorry about forgetting this).
 
> 
> 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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