Bug#848758: Latest upgrade of Numpy breaks tests of other packages (Was: Bug#848758: python-skbio: FTBFS: Test failures)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Adrian and Anton,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:40:16AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > > it seems the recent upgrade of numpy has broken some tests in other
> > > packages like for instance this one in python-skbio.  I wonder whether
> > > you are either able to suggest patches to get the tests working with the
> > > new interface of numpy again or whether it might be sensible to revert
> > > the upgrade of python-numpy to the previous version considering that we
> > > are quite close to the freeze.
> > 
> > There is still a month to the freeze for the existing package, so
> > let's not panic already. I'd suggest contacting the upstream of the
> > projects with failing test and ask for support
> 
> For python-skbio it is *really* time to panic *right now*.
> 
> python-skbio is currently not in testing.
> 
> For python-skbio to have any chance of being part of stretch, the
> latest possible date for an upload of a package without any RC bugs
> is Christmas Day (and then not touch the package for 10 days).
> 
> If this issue is not resolved by Christmas, your Christmas present for 
> the python-skbio maintainers is that their package will definitely not
> be part of stretch.

Thanks for confirming that I was not actually panicing. ;-)

Sandro, would you reconsider my suggestion to revert this
mini-transition?  I do not see a realistic chance that upstream will
come up with fixes in the next two days.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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