Dear Maintainer,

pynpoint is not compatible with numpy 2.x - it makes use of methods that
are long-since removed from numpy. Running the upstream test suite
shows that the package is quite broken at present:

The Debian packaging for pynpoint doesn't run any tests at build time and,
as noted in #1035214, also does not run any autopkgtest tests. Adding these
tests in would have spotted this problem over a year ago when numpy 2.x was
uploaded to Debian.

Stuart

Hello Stuart,

thanks for raising this.

I have spoken to upstream about this and the problem is that the pytests of
pynpoint all require external assets which cannot be reproduced by us.

https://github.com/PynPoint/PynPoint/issues/432

The absence of autopkgtest isn't ideal. To fix that I suggest to implement a
smoke test which tests pynpoint as a package. That way we have an autopkgtest
which fails whenever pynpoint fails. Not ideal either but at least a step in
the right direction..

What do you think?

Best regards,

Hi Arian

There are a few options for the Debian packaging.

- Build-time tests can't download data, and so some minimalist smoke
tests would be handy.

- If it's only some of the tests that need the remote data files, then
skipping them at build time and running the test would work. That is
most often done from debian/rules (such as PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS) or with a
patch to mark them as skip/skipif on some condition that you can set
from d/rules.

- autopkgtest test _can_ download data for the purposes of running
tests; the test needs to decleare a 'needs-internet' restriction.

A common pattern is that a subset of non-internet-using tests are run on
the buildd but then all tests are run in autopkgtests.

regards
Stuart

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pynpoint, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1122955@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> (supplier of updated pynpoint package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:24:49 +0200
Source: pynpoint
Architecture: source
Version: 0.11.1-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers <debian-astro-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
Closes: 1035214 1122955
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