Re: Numpy migration?

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> writes:
> The way forward in cases like these is for the package that originally
> cuased the breakage (i.e. numpy) to declare a versioned Breaks on the
> borken and now fixed package (i.e. astropy (<< 3.1-1)). This way
> britney and debci will know they have to test numpy and astropy
> together, and will be able to correctly migrate to testing at the same
> time, and properly avoid a situation when two incompatible packages
> are installed.
> Maybe you could open a bug on numpy to get the maintainer to add the breaks.

There is one more problem, which are transitional dependencies:

The new python3-numpy version breaks (f.e.) python3-pyregion because of
the problem in python3-astropy. The new upload of python3-astropy fixes
this, so in unstable everything is OK. Even when one now adds a

Breaks: python3-astropy (<< fixed-version)

to python-numpy, it will not migrate due to the test failure of
python3-pyregion in testing. Adding a "Breaks: python3-pyregion" is
however wrong, since pyregion is perfect for the new numpy version.

So, how to handle this?

Cheers

Ole