Bug#900431: python-hdf5storage: FTBFS and Debci failure with NumPy 1.14

[Graham Inggs]

Source: python-hdf5storage
Version: 0.1.14-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: needs-update

Hi Maintainer

Since the recent upload of python-numpy, python-hdf5storage has been 
failing its autopkgtests [1] and has now also started to FTBFS in 
unstable [2] with several errors similar to the following:

FAIL: test_write_readback.TestNoneFormat.test_numpy_recarray_empty(1,)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
     self.test(*self.arg)
   File 
"/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.fen4kqe9/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/tests/test_write_readback.py", 
line 189, in check_numpy_recarray_empty
     self.assert_equal(out, data)
   File 
"/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.fen4kqe9/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/tests/test_write_readback.py", 
line 619, in assert_equal
     assert_equal_none_format(a, b)
   File 
"/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.fen4kqe9/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/tests/asserts.py", 
line 147, in assert_equal_none_format
     assert a.dtype == b.dtype
AssertionError

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/python-hdf5storage/testing/amd64/
[2] 
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/python-hdf5storage.html