Bug#852906: numexpr: FTBFS: Test failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: numexpr
Version: 2.6.1-3
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170128 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):
> 
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_scalar2_long_none_POW_TESTS_4066 (__main__.TestExpressions)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "numexpr/tests/test_numexpr.py", line 1032, in method
>     return func()
>   File "numexpr/tests/test_numexpr.py", line 605, in method
>     assert np_exception is None, msg
> AssertionError: expected numexpr error not raised for expression '(a+1)**-7'
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 5441 tests in 5.671s
> 
> FAILED (failures=24)
> debian/rules:59: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/01/28/numexpr_2.6.1-3_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.