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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 07:54:35AM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>...
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:40:16AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> >> 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.
> 
> sarcasm wont help you make your point.

My point was how wrong your "there is still a month to the freeze" was.

And as a matter of fact, the freeze did already start 1.5 months ago 
with the transition freeze.

>...
> * engage with upstream to get this fixed by them and backport the
> patch to the current package (if they prefer not to release a new
> version now)

I'm glad I am not involved with any of the affected packages.

3 days before Christmas Eve is approximately the worst time of the year 
when you need something urgently from other people.

> * skip that test / dont make the build fail if there is a test failure
> (for now!).

In practice, "for now" means "forever".

Do you really want to recommend to people to disable failing tests 
in cases where these are showing real bugs in the code?

cu
Adrian

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