Hi Rebecca, On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 09:16:17AM +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > I think that just means "numpy hasn't yet been rebuilt for Python 3.8". (In > Python modules that include a C extension, the .py files are shared but the > C part is compiled separately for each Python version.) > > As there are ~500 modules requiring such a rebuild > (https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.8.html), this may take > some time. (numpy itself will probably be a source upload, to move 1.17 > from experimental to unstable.) > > For testing, it may be easiest to use an Ubuntu chroot for now.
Its not about testing. Its the usual build time test. If I'd do a source upload of this package it will FTBFS under the current state of the archive. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de