Re: statsmodels
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:47:41PM +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> On 13/02/2019 09:10, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Any volunteer to backport the relevant changes I pushed to Git right now
> > to 0.8.0?
>
> I intend to try tomorrow, if the uploaders don't say anything first.
Yaroslav confirmed it is OK, I know from Michael that he intends to
increase his involvement into Debian again in may be some months but he
was basically MIA since years. I don't know anything about Diane but I
doubt she will stop you from saving the package. ;-)
> > I'm actually wondering why the package did not got any removal
> > from testing warning (or did I missed something)?
>
> statsmodels is considered a key package (i.e. can't be autoremoved) because
> of the statsmodels -> seaborn -> sphinx-gallery -> matplotlib
> build-dependency chain.
>
> The autoremoval list (sorted by maintainer/team) is
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi
Very good hint also for other packages ...
> > PS: As a general note: We probably need more people dedicated to Debian
> > Science QA work.
>
> I guess that's sort of what I do (and if statsmodels and/or pandas were to
> become available, they are at least things I use).
I'd be happily sponsor whatever you prepare (if I'm not misleaded you
are even DM so I can give you direct upload permissions).
Thanks a lot for your work on this
Andreas.
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