Bug#848771: numexpr: FTBFS: Test failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: numexpr
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161219 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test_scalar2_long_none_POW_TESTS_4066 (__main__.TestExpressions)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "numexpr/tests/test_numexpr.py", line 1011, in method
>     return func()
>   File "numexpr/tests/test_numexpr.py", line 572, in method
>     npval = eval(expr, globals(), this_locals)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: Integers to negative integer powers are not allowed.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 5441 tests in 5.616s
> 
> FAILED (errors=24)
> debian/rules:59: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/12/19/numexpr_2.6.1-2_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.