Bug#858836: unblock: h5py/2.7.0~rc3-2 or h5py/2.7.0-1 (pre-approval)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Ghislain Antony Vaillant:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package h5py
> 
> Whilst improving the DEP-8 tests of h5py to cover all supported Python
> versions, I discovered that the -dbg packages were missing an install
> dependency on Numpy (#858727). Without this fix, using python-h5py-dbg
> or python3-h5py-dbg would result in an ImportError.
> 
> I have prepared an update providing the more comprehensive DEP-8 tests
> and solving the issue with the missing numpy-dbg install dependencies.
> The corresponding debdiff is attached with this email. I would like to
> request your approval for pushing this update to unstable and letting it
> migrate to Stretch.
> 
> On a closing note, upstream recently released h5py version 2.7.0. This
> version does not differ much from 2.7.0~rc3, and providing it would
> allow us to drop the last two patches from the patch queue that had to
> be cherry-picked in order to get rc3 to work. Therefore, perhaps
> shipping 2.7.0 instead of rc3 would be better from a maintenance
> perspective.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ghis
> 
> unblock h5py/2.7.0~rc3-2
> 
> [...]

Hi,

I am happy to ack the provided debdiff.  Alternatively, if you want the
2.7 release, I would like to see the debdiff first.  It does sound like
it would make sense in this case.

Thanks,
~Niels