[Python-modules-team] Bug#919929: python-scipy: autopkgtest fails (Re: bug#919929)

[Drew Parsons]

On 2019-03-07 20:46, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
> If you upload now, your package will not migrate to testing before the
> full freeze becomes effective so it would need an unblock. If you want
> to fix this issue with the three lines I saw in the bug report, you can
> go ahead. However, it is probably worth waiting for a resolution of bug
> 915738 and combine it with that.
> 

Alas, the deprecation patch (in python-scipy 1.1.0-3) doesn't actually 
prevent emission of the deprecation warnings, so they're still spamming 
the debci log.  On the bright side, s390x is now using gfortran-8 
successfully (#915738).

To remove the deprecation warnings we'd need to deal with them at the 
source. Upstream has patches
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/commit/614847c5fc8d5f8a618980df3c1b93540428ae46
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/commit/e0cfa29e2fbe86f994924c0c7514ff5bbfffd514
and for completeness
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/commit/87e48c3c54d7a85bc6628c88c1de98ac0469b6fa

The deprecation problem (matrix API) appears in many places, but the fix 
is straightfoward: replace np.matrix with matrix from from 
scipy.sparse.sputils

Can you authorise an unblock to apply these 3 upstream patches to 
python-scipy 1.1.0 ?
That won't necessarily fix the debci failure, but it will make it a lot 
easier to see what's actually failing.

Drew