[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1022307: status on t_coffee causing biopython ftbfs

[Nilesh Patra]

Hi Andrius, all,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:07:32 +0200 Andrius Merkys <merkys at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:54:48 +0100 =?utf-8?Q?=C3=89tienne?= Mollier 
> <emollier at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi, mostly retitling the open entry against biopython for the
> > sake of clarity, and also pinging both bugs to reset auto-
> > removal counters.  We don't have much news from t_coffee
> > upstream to day unfortunately.  Maybe it will be necessary to
> > revert the t-coffee version bump for the upcoming Debian release
> > or do people see other options?
> 
> This issue is blocking Python 3.11-add transition, but we surely do not 
> want biopython to be dropped from testing. However, the problem is not 
> with biopython, but with t-coffee which biopython merely uses for tests. 
> Would it be acceptable to skip t-coffee tests for now thus unblocking 
> Python 3.11-add transition?
> This bug report should remain open to remind 
> us bring t-coffee tests back once #1022570 is solved.

That sounds quite a reasonable thing to do, but we probably should also
decrese the severity of this bug to "important" to let biopython be in testing
once the corresponding tests are skipped.

Étienne, what do you think?

-- 
Best,
Nilesh
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