Bug#1103579: coot: autopkgtest regression: ImportError

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 22-04-2025 13:44, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Andrius Merkys <merkys at debian.org> [250422 09:27]:
>> coot/1.1.15+dfsg-1+b1 (in unstable) was a rebuild against 
>> rdkit/202503.1-2 (in unstable). coot/1.1.15+dfsg-1 (in testing) is 
>> built to work with rdkit/202409.6-2 (in testing). Mixing versions from 
>> stable and unstable results in autopkgtest failures. I do not know how 
>> to do this, but coot+rdkit has to migrate to testing together.
> 
> My understanding is that, when you cannot mix stable and unstable/ 
> testing, packages need to declare proper dependencies. At the very 
> least, please talk to -release in such cases (added to CC:).


See https://bugs.debian.org/1103162

This failure mode occasionally happens during regular transitions too 
and we don't have an automated way to deal with it (because there's not 
a general good solution).

I'll manually run the (hopefully) right test.

Paul

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