Subject: bug#23364: python-statsmodels build failures

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 20:07:01 -0500

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 05:07:03PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> reopen 23364
> thanks
> 
> Andreas Enge <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > This has probably been fixed in the following commit:
> >
> > commit 25b2c47d753efd0761a4e16519dce38d828789f5
> > Author: Hartmut Goebel <[email-masked]>
> > Date:   Sun Oct 16 18:40:58 2016 +0200
> >
> >     gnu: python-statsmodels: Fix build
> >
> >     * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (python-statsmodels): [check] set
> >       PYTHONPATH prior to running tests.
> >
> > In any case the package did compile in 2017, and was updated later to 0.8.0.
> 
> No, there have been over 200 nondeterministic build failures of
> python-statsmodels since that commit, including over 140 failures of
> 0.8.0.  I usually have to ask Hydra to attempt to rebuild it several
> times before it finally succeeds.

I wonder if the test suite is really worth running in this case? Maybe
we should just report the failures upstream and skip the tests.