Bug 1838207

python-matplotlib fails to build with Python 3.9.0b1.

We have built numpy 1.19.0rc1 from dist git. This built hasn't happened yet in Fedora rawhide, but eventually will. Seems like matplotlib fails with a lot of tests because of a new deprecation warning:

numpy.VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray


For the build logs, see:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@python/python3.9/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01399175-python-matplotlib/

For all our attempts to build python-matplotlib with Python 3.9, see:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.9/package/python-matplotlib/

Testing and mass rebuild of packages is happening in copr. You can follow these instructions to test locally in mock if your package builds with Python 3.9:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.9/

Let us know here if you have any questions.

Python 3.9 will be included in Fedora 33. To make that update smoother, we're building Fedora packages with early pre-releases of Python 3.9.
A build failure prevents us from testing all dependent packages (transitive [Build]Requires), so if this package is required a lot, it's important for us to get it fixed soon.
We'd appreciate help from the people who know this package best, but if you don't want to work on this now, let us know so we can try to work around it on our side.