Bug#971806: python-hdf5storage's autopkg tests fail in unstable

[Drew Parsons]

On 2020-10-13 00:36, Drew Parsons wrote:
> For instance a recent amd64 error is
> 
> ERROR:
> test_write_readback.TestPythonMatlabFormat.test_dtype_structured_with_offsets_titles
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.58_whuw2/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/tests/test_write_readback.py",
> line 862, in test_dtype_structured_with_offsets_titles
>     np.dtype(desc).itemsize + random.randint(1, 100)
> ValueError: title already used as a name or title.
> 
> 
> 
> But the indicated code line "np.dtype(desc).itemsize +
> random.randint(1, 100)" is just a random value for the field
> desc_with_itemsize['itemsize']. What does it have to do with names?
> Not clear why the indicated ValueError is triggered by this.
> 


Evidently it's not about filename clashes then.  That ValueError is 
triggered by numpy,
e.g. 
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/a72b89c7c2e30f5df5cf27f68b6afd45361934fd/numpy/core/src/multiarray/descriptor.c#L1234