Cherry-pick upstream commit to fix test failure caused by test_argsort()

Reference:
1. pandas-dev#17010
2. pandas-dev#17046
3. pandas-dev#17051
4. pandas-dev@df6934c
5. pandas-dev@480d574

Gbp-Dch: Short

Author: cdluminate

debian/patches/series

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ deb_skip_sequencelike_on_armel
 up_print_versions
 up_network_seaborn
 up_tst_dont_assert_that_a_bug_exists_in_numpy
+up_tst_np_argsort_comparison1
+up_tst_np_argsort_comparison2
 dateutil-2.6.1-fixed-ambiguous-tz-dst-be.patch
 mark_tests_working_on_intel.patch
 mark_tests_working_on_intel_s390x.patch

debian/patches/up_tst_np_argsort_comparison1

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From df6934cad28c33c3eaf584ad3519cc1b9b8e16f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: ysau <[email protected]>
+Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:21:38 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] # modified: /doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt # # undone
+ update to release note
+
+---
+ doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+index e4c50ec93f9..91d3e9e7b93 100644
+--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
++++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ Indexing
+ - Fixes bug where indexing with ``np.inf`` caused an ``OverflowError`` to be raised (:issue:`16957`)
+ - Bug in reindexing on an empty ``CategoricalIndex`` (:issue:`16770`)
+ - Fixes ``DataFrame.loc`` for setting with alignment and tz-aware ``DatetimeIndex`` (:issue:`16889`)
+-- Fixes ``test_argsort``, ``test_numpy_argsort`` to cover both `>` and `<` in the error message (:issue:`17046`)
+  
+ I/O
+ ^^^

debian/patches/up_tst_np_argsort_comparison2

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From 480d5745e1443de6e91a9f9c42d94e29705a3f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: ysau <[email protected]>
+Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:29:12 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] # Issue 17046 # #    modified:
+ /pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py, #             
+ /doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt # # Include both '>' and '<' in the error
+ message in # TestMixedIntIndex.test_argsort and #
+ TestMixedIntIndex.test_numpy_argsort
+
+---
+ doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt   | 1 +
+ pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+index 91d3e9e7b93..e4c50ec93f9 100644
+--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
++++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ Indexing
+ - Fixes bug where indexing with ``np.inf`` caused an ``OverflowError`` to be raised (:issue:`16957`)
+ - Bug in reindexing on an empty ``CategoricalIndex`` (:issue:`16770`)
+ - Fixes ``DataFrame.loc`` for setting with alignment and tz-aware ``DatetimeIndex`` (:issue:`16889`)
++- Fixes ``test_argsort``, ``test_numpy_argsort`` to cover both `>` and `<` in the error message (:issue:`17046`)
+  
+ I/O
+ ^^^
+diff --git a/pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py b/pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py
+index 692cdd49579..842e8fea0df 100644
+--- a/pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py
++++ b/pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py
+@@ -1846,7 +1846,7 @@ def create_index(self):
+     def test_argsort(self):
+         idx = self.create_index()
+         if PY36:
+-            with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "'>' not supported"):
++            with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "'>|<' not supported"):
+                 result = idx.argsort()
+         elif PY3:
+             with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "unorderable types"):
+@@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ def test_argsort(self):
+     def test_numpy_argsort(self):
+         idx = self.create_index()
+         if PY36:
+-            with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "'>' not supported"):
++            with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "'>|<' not supported"):
+                 result = np.argsort(idx)
+         elif PY3:
+             with tm.assert_raises_regex(TypeError, "unorderable types"):