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

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Wed Dec 21 14:29:00 UTC 2016


On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:05:57PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
>...
> The according functions are since then marked as "deprecated" and issue
> a warning. Numpy introduced this change with 1.11rc already, which was
> uploaded to Debian about 6 months ago. After it appears that many
> packages (als in Debian) have problems with this, they postponed it for
> another release -- which happens just now.
>...

You are saying you knew for 6 months that many packages in Debian
have problems with the changes that have just been uploaded.

Why were no bugs filed a few months before the upload?

> Best regards
> 
> Ole

cu
Adrian

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