[bug#51890] Vigra: disable more failing tests on core-updates-frozen

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

On November 18, 2021 9:09:50 AM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> skribis:
>
>> From 4311c36dcd280ba385a3d0f33800428102bef0b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:18:42 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: vigra: Disable more failing tests.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/image.scm (vigra) [phase disable-broken-tests]: Also disable
>> test2, test3, test_arraytypes and test_multidef.
>
>Looks like it was worked around by disabling NumPy support in Vigra, in
>commit 94b76dc85ca3098bf4ceb0f5b884b5708b9e8134.
>
>I’m not sure how NumPy is used; is there a preference between these two
>options (disabling flaky tests and removing the dependency on NumPy)?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

It looked to me like vigra was limping along and numpy compatibility was being dragged along by patches here and there. When I built the dependencies of vigra nothing failed to build. I'm definitely not against reinstating support for numpy but I'm not sure just disabling the tests is the right way.

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