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@bentyeh bentyeh commented Jan 16, 2026

Updating to version 3.5.6 bypasses a previous bug where deeptools version 3.5.5 is not compatible with NumPy version 2, but the bioconda recipe (meta.yaml; https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/591f3c411db2cb334511f0f13e60b4d4d9cadb2f/recipes/deeptools/meta.yaml) for deeptools version 3.5.5 only specifies a lower limit on NumPy versions (numpy >=1.9.0), which inadvertently allows conda to install NumPy version 2 and deeptools version 3.5.5 in the same environment, leading to incompatibilities and pipeline errors.

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Updating to version 3.5.6 bypasses a previous bug where deeptools
version 3.5.5 is not compatible with NumPy version 2, but the bioconda
recipe (meta.yaml; https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/591f3c411db2cb334511f0f13e60b4d4d9cadb2f/recipes/deeptools/meta.yaml)
for deeptools version 3.5.5 only specifies a lower limit on NumPy versions
(numpy >=1.9.0), which inadvertently allows conda to install NumPy version
2 and deeptools version 3.5.5 in the same environment, leading to
incompatibilities and pipeline errors.
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You'll need to also update the containers specified in the main.nf files, and rerun the tests to update the snapshots.
If you are able to, it'd be helpful to also swap to using topic channels: https://nf-co.re/docs/tutorials/migrate_to_topics/update_modules

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bentyeh commented Jan 19, 2026

@SPPearce Thank you for the comment. I'm new to nextflow and also not familiar with maintaining/updating containers. Would you mind pointing me to resources/tutorials about how to update the containers?

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