Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:00:21AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>>> > @Leo: Can you please start a new evaluation of python-tests?
>>> 
>>> I pushed some other fixes recently and built most of `guix package -A
>>> python`, so I think we're ready for a new evaluation. I suggest we do a
>>> new evaluation on 'master' after fixing the most critical packages so we
>>> can include this in 'core-updates'. How does that sound?
>>
>> I just started a new evaluation of the branch.
>>
>>> These packages are known to fail still:
>>> 
>>> python-dendropy
>>> python2-fastlmm
>>> python2-bandit
>>> python-openid
>>> python-axolotl
>>> 
>>> + Many of the python2 variants of the openstack family libraries (oslo
>>> etc), which seems to have a unittest2 version mismatch. Should be
>>> easy to fix, but let's get some substitutes first :-)
>>
>> I think we should set '#:tests? #f' in these packages and build and
>> merge the branch.
>>
>> If these remaining test suite failures indicate that the packages are
>> broken, they will be equally broken with the test suites disabled. But
>> overall we will benefit from fixing this bug in python-build-system.
>
> I agree.
>
> Only two tests (out of 820) for python-dendropy fail:
>
> + test_fixed_species_tree_fitting (dendropy.test.test_multispeciescoalescent.MultispeciesCoalescentBasicTestCase)
> + test1 (dendropy.test.test_multispeciescoalescent.MultispeciesCoalescentFixedSingleTreesCalculationTestCase)
>
> Both fail with
>
>     TypeError: unorderable types: Edge() < Edge()
>
> I think it’s worth building the package anyway after disabling these two
> tests.  I reported the test failures upstream:
>
>     https://github.com/jeetsukumaran/DendroPy/issues/77

Attached is a patch to delete the failing tests for DendroPy.