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oh this does pass devdeps because this job doesn't include pandas. Welp, I guess I can undraft now then

FTR, this is just the backport patch. It makes the deprecation invisible, but I also plan to open a follow up patch for 8.0.0 only, which will re-emit a new deprecation warning

Thanks. Let's get it in then.

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There seem to be a conflict, please backport manually. Here are approximate instructions:

1. Checkout backport branch and update it.

git checkout v7.2.x
git pull

2. Cherry pick the first parent branch of the this PR on top of the older branch:

git cherry-pick -x -m1 bf76f45b1ec57c7f86ba6332db3e9ed552582dae

3. You will likely have some merge/cherry-pick conflict here, fix them and commit:

git commit -am 'Backport PR #19540: BUG: use non-deprecated numpy APIs to override dtype of a base column'

4. Push to a named branch:

git push YOURFORK v7.2.x:auto-backport-of-pr-19540-on-v7.2.x

5. Create a PR against branch v7.2.x, I would have named this PR:

"Backport PR #19540 on branch v7.2.x (BUG: use non-deprecated numpy APIs to override dtype of a base column)"

And apply the correct labels and milestones.

Congratulations — you did some good work! Hopefully your backport PR will be tested by the continuous integration and merged soon!

Remember to remove the Still Needs Manual Backport label once the PR gets merged.

If these instructions are inaccurate, feel free to suggest an improvement.