Package: python-numpy Version: 1:1.11.1~rc1-1 Severity: serious Forwarded: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/7697
The latest RC1 package uses a version number (1.11.1rc1) that causes an exception in distutils.version.StrictVersion: >>> from distutils.version import StrictVersion >>> StrictVersion("1.11.1.rc1") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/version.py", line 40, in __init__ self.parse(vstring) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/version.py", line 107, in parse raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring ValueError: invalid version number '1.11.1.rc1' This causes FTBS and CI failures on packages (like spectral-cube) that use StrictVersion in their build/run time tests [1]. [1] https://ci.debian.net/data/packages/unstable/amd64/s/spectral-cube/latest-autopkgtest/log.gz