Bug#988142: pandas FTBFS in buster: test failures

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 03:11:14PM +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> This is _probably_ the same issue that 0.23.3+dfsg-3 has had since it was
> new: some tests run in all installed locales, and on reproducible-builds
> (but not buildds without a locales-all dependency) this includes a few with
> no text encoding.
> 
> The underlying issue is in Python stdlib, and is an exception (not a wrong
> answer).  The 'fix' in -4 was to ignore the affected tests.
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pandas/-/commit/da7f8469cdf96b0da87db87ea1741e180cee7656
> 
> Hence, I currently do not intend to attempt a fix in stable, but am open to
> discussion of this.

Unless you object to that, I was considering doing a buster-pu update
with the patch for this test fix added.

cu
Adrian