python-skbio is failing tests with scipy 1.17, currently
available in experimental.

794s =========================== short test summary info ============================
794s FAILED diversity/tests/test_driver.py::BetaDiversityTests::test_available_metrics
794s FAILED diversity/tests/test_driver.py::BetaDiversityTests::test_qualitative_bug_issue_1549
794s FAILED stats/distance/tests/test_permdisp.py::testPERMDISP::test_centroids_null
794s FAILED stats/tests/test_composition.py::AncomTests::test_ancom_no_signal - As...
794s ===== 4 failed, 3056 passed, 30 skipped, 76 warnings in 664.43s (0:11:04) ======


The error appears to be use of a deprecated API:

794s E               ValueError: Unknown Distance Metric: sokalmichener


python-skbio 0.7 has been released, does it fix the problem?

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-skbio, 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 1128281@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de> (supplier of updated python-skbio package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:50:59 +0200
Source: python-skbio
Architecture: source
Version: 0.7.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Closes: 1128281
Changes:
 python-skbio (0.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Karsten Schöke ]
   * Team upload.
   * Packaging update (routine-update)
     Closes: #1128281
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.4 (routine-update)
   * remove obsolete patches.
   * Insert new patches
     - set expliziet mathjax_path
     - remove google analytics_id
     - Fix missing variable declarations in Cython code
     - Use setuptools package discovery for all scikit-bio modules
   * add gbp.conf file
   * d/rules: Package modernized.
   * d/copyright: Removed files no longer present upstream.
   * d/control: Update B-D and wrap-and-sort
   * Update lintian-overrides
   * d/rules: disable doctest
   * d/rules: Removing tests from the binary package
   * FontAwesome fonts are required by pydata-sphinx-theme for its icons
   * d/control: Update B-D.
   * Reflow Uploaders field (cme)
   * Remove trailing whitespace in debian/rules (routine-update)
   * insert pybuild.testfiles to discover Autopkgtests
 .
   [ Andreas Tille ]
   * Update Homepage
   * d/watch: version=5
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