Bug#946451: spyder: work on new upstream release

[Julian Gilbey]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 09:47:51AM +0000, Jitse Niesen wrote:
> On 04/01/2021 22:10, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >
> > Then there are only 6 other failures; again, I haven't investigated
> > further.  I don't know what "xfailures" are.
> 
> This stands for expected failures; they are tests that fail on our upstream
> testing system due to a bug that we know about but have not yet fixed. So
> there is no need for you to worry about them.
> 
> As you must have realized, the automatic tests are not very robust. Our
> experience is that they do occasionally fail due to reasons that we can't
> figure out. So you're probably right not investigating further.
> 
> Good work!
> Jitse

Thanks Jitse!

   Julian