Bug#900486: python-pydap: FTBFS and Debci failure with NumPy 1.14

[Graham Inggs]

Source: python-pydap
Version: 3.2.2+ds1-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: needs-update

Hi Maintainer

Since the recent upload of python-numpy on 2018-05-05, python-pydap has 
been failing its autopkgtests [1] and has now also started to FTBFS in
unstable [2] with several errors similar to the following:

     return obj.view(dtype=(self.dtype.type, obj.dtype))
   /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/records.py:513: 
FutureWarning: Numpy has detected that you may be viewing or writing to 
an array returned by selecting multiple fields in a structured array.

   This code may break in numpy 1.15 because this will return a view 
instead of a copy -- see release notes for details.
     return obj.view(dtype=(self.dtype.type, obj.dtype))

-- Docs: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/warnings.html
============================== 2 tests deselected 
==============================
= 7 failed, 343 passed, 7 skipped, 2 deselected, 222 warnings in 5.68 
seconds ==
E: pybuild pybuild:336: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: 
cd /build/1st/python-pydap-3.2.2+ds1/.pybuild/cpython3_3.6_pydap/build; 
python3.6 -m pytest -k "not server"
dh_auto_test: pybuild --test --test-pytest -i python{version} -p 3.6 
returned exit code 13
make: *** [debian/rules:16: build] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit 
status 2

Regards
Graham


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