On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 22:44 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hello, > > I am keeping me busy packaging the Orange machine learning library > that > seems nice (https://orange.biolab.si/#Orange-Features). Now, the > test > routines demand a matplotlib.pyplot module that is not in version 2 > that > we feature. Version 3 is the current stable release.
Ack. Thank you for explaining the context. > Now, I am tempted to create a package matplotlib3 instead of forcing > everyone to update from this long term release (see > https://matplotlib.org/). > > Any opinions from your sides? How is that going to work without creating package conflicts? I suppose the main module is still named "matplotlib" not "matplotlib3" in version 3 onwards? So using python3-matplotlib3 would be a breach of policy. Let me ask you this: where is the rush to package this machine learning library? Could it wait after the Buster release cycle, where we might be in a more comfortable position to upgrade matplotlib? Cheers, Ghis