Re: dask.distributed RC bug #1042135

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

Hi Diane (and cc'ing the correct mailing list - oops!),

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 09:37:48AM -0700, Diane Trout wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 14:02 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Hi Diane,
> > 
> > I just got emails telling me that some of my packages would be
> > removed
> > from testing because they (recursively) (build-)depend on
> > dask.distributed: https://bugs.debian.org/1042135
> > 
> > Are you able to take a look at this soon, or would you like someone
> > to
> > do a team upload?
> > 
> > There is also a newer version available: 2023.7.1, which may well
> > resolve this.
> 
> Last time I tried updating pyarrow wasn't properly optional and we
> don't have it packaged. (And it's actually in a single repository that
> builds multiple language modules)
> 
> Dask has updated their build system some, and let me see if it'll
> update.
> 
> If I don't manage to get to it, make sure that if you try you have to
> update both dask and dask.distributed together, and it's best to makes
> sure that you run the dask.distributed tests using the updated dask.
> 
> That's where why it's usually been difficult to update.

Thanks so much!  I see you've already started on dask :)

I took at quick look at arrow - yikes!  There is potentially work
afoot on this though:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021

Best wishes,

   Julian