[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#868962: python-skbio: FTBFS: Test failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: python-skbio
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170719 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> 
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_deepcopy_with_positional_metadata (skbio.sequence.tests.test_sequence.TestSequencePositionalMetadata)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_3.6/build/skbio/metadata/_testing.py", line 630, in test_deepcopy_with_positional_metadata
>     obj_copy._positional_metadata.loc[0, 'bar'])
> AssertionError: unexpectedly identical: []
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 2238 tests in 44.031s
> 
> FAILED (SKIP=30, errors=8, failures=6)
> E: pybuild pybuild:283: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_3.6/build; python3.6 -m nose 
> dh_auto_test: pybuild --test --test-nose -i python{version} -p 3.6 3.5 returned exit code 13
> debian/rules:22: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/07/19/python-skbio_0.5.1-2_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.