[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#996794: ncbi-acc-download: autopkgtest failure with python-biopython 1.79+dfsg-1~0exp0 in experimental

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: tags -1 + patch

Hello,

Étienne Mollier, on 2021-10-19:
> After some digging, I found one possible cause of breakage.
> Since biopython 1.79, Bio.Seq.UnknownSeq is deprecated [1], so
> it might be possible that ncbi-acc-download does not parse the
> instanciation of that class very well.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/DEPRECATED.rst#biosequnknownseq

The issue turned out to be related, and I came up with some
hackery to smoothen the transition to python-biopython 1.79.
The corresponding patch is in attachment.  I welcome remarks,
since I'm only half happy with the result, although I tried hard
to make sure it is functionally equivalent.

> Looks like I would want to take the issue upstream.

Will do once I have a handle to the patch in the bts.

Have a nice day,  :)
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Étienne Mollier <emollier at emlwks999.eu>
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