[Debichem-devel] Bug#1028722: prody: FTBFS: AssertionError: 3205 != 3211 : selection 'abs(x) == sqrt(sq(x))' for Selection 'all' failed, expected 3211, selected 3205

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Santiago,

On 2023-11-02 01:14, Santiago Vila wrote:
> El 13/10/23 a las 8:04, Andrius Merkys escribió:
>>> To summarize: The failing test is buggy because when it fails
>>> it does not necessarily mean that the package was misbuilt,
>>> and in my opinion the best thing to do would be to disable it,
>>> both in stable and unstable.
>>>
>>> Trivial patch in the second attach.
>>
>> Many thanks for investigating this issue. I will apply your patch, but 
>> prody would still FTBFS in sid and trixie due to unrelated 
>> incompatibility with python3-biopython.
> 
> Note: I'd like to see this fixed in stable, but RMs require
> (rightly so) that this is fixed in unstable first.

Thanks. You may look into disabling prody's part which uses biopython, 
maybe this will make it easier to fix the comparison issue in unstable. 
I don't know whether this is possible, though.

> I would be willing to join debichem and do the work
> myself if it helps, for this kind of stuff.

Sure, feel free to do that. Restoring compatibility with biopython in 
unstable might be tricky, at least this is what upstream says:

https://github.com/prody/ProDy/issues/1723

Best,
Andrius