Hi Ole, On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:05:57PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > On 21.12.2016 11:59, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:40:16AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> For python-skbio it is *really* time to panic *right now*. > > Thanks for confirming that I was not actually panicing. ;-) > > While I agree in principle, I would like to remind the following as well: > > The current FTBFS mainly (as far as I can see) come from a change that > was announced already two numpy versions ago: that numpy will refuse to > accept floats as indices. > > The according functions are since then marked as "deprecated" and issue > a warning. Numpy introduced this change with 1.11rc already, which was > uploaded to Debian about 6 months ago. After it appears that many > packages (als in Debian) have problems with this, they postponed it for > another release -- which happens just now.
Thanks for the information. However, you know that not all upstreams are following these changes in a timely manner and not every maintainer is following the changes of the reverse dependencies that closely. In any case we have a transition freeze and my point was *also* to check whether there are other rdepends of Numpy. I admit that python-skbio is a low popcon package and if there are no other problems with the new Numpy verision *and* the new version has large advantages over the old one *and* is as RC candidate stable enough to go into Stretch its probably not a big deal if we backport python-skbio. > I am a bin angry here about unresponsive upstreams, which just ignore > these changes as long as possible, and I am not sure whether we should > ship Stretch with an outdated numpy release As far as I can see the current stable is 1.11.2 the current target for Stretch is just an RC candidate. > (I am too lazy in the moment to support my statement with links; if you > need, I will do so ofcourse) I fully believe you without links. :-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers