On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 09:00:07 +0100 Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: mgltools-pmv Version: 1.5.7-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusableHi, I intended to reproduce #855485 but I was running into a different problem: $ runPmv Run PMV from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pmv Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pmv/__init__.py", line 378, in runPmv from Pmv.moleculeViewer import MoleculeViewer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pmv/moleculeViewer.py", line 16, in <module> from MolKit.molecule import Atom, AtomSet, BondSet, Molecule , MoleculeSet File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MolKit/molecule.py", line 26, in <module> from numpy.oldnumeric import sum, array, less_equal, take, nonzero, argsort ImportError: No module named oldnumeric
Not too surprising considering that the numpy.oldnumeric modules was removed since Numpy 1.9 [1], so it has been broken for a long time without people noticing.
We could port the code base to the current Numpy API, but I am not sure whether we will have enough of a user-base to validate it (see above) and how much effort it will take. Besides, the software did not receive updates for years so we would probably be maintaining this effort on our own.
Based on this 2 comments, one might ask whether it is worth maintaining a package for this piece of software.
[1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.oldnumeric.html Cheers, Ghis
