Bug#1078531: python-mp-api: new release requires unpackaged maggma package

[Drew Parsons]

Source: python-mp-api
Version: 0.34.3-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: FTBFS

We need to upgrade python3-mp-api for python3.12 support and to run
successfully with latest pymatgen.

However, more recent versions of python-mp-api required the maggma
package from https://github.com/materialsproject/maggma/
which is not yet packaged for Debian.

We will be unable to build update and build python-mp-api until maggma
is available. Hence marking this bug severity: serious (FTBFS)
in order to remove python3-mp-api from testing.

If you're able to do the work of packaging maggma, then please file an
ITP against the wnpp pseudopackage, and identify it as blocking this
bug.

[Roland Mas]

Hi Drew,

Now that python3-maggma is available in unstable, I took the liberty of
preparing python-mp-api for the new upstream release. I don't have write
permissions on debichem-team, so I forked the project at
https://salsa.debian.org/lolando/python-mp-api and updated the packaging
accordingly (starting with gbp import-orig --uscan, then tweaking the
Depends: and Build-Depends: fields as required). The experimental branch
builds and passes its testsuite, and I submit it here for review and
possibly upload :-)

Thanks,

Roland.