Control: tags -1 patch Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/dask/partd/issues/82 (By Fedora, not us, but obviously the same bug.)
Tomáš Hrnčiar proposed a fix to upstream: https://github.com/dask/partd/pull/83/filesIt remains un-accepted as upstream is effectively abandoned, but matches this advice from pandas upstream:
https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/migration-3-strings.html#series-values-now-returns-an-extensionarray
