Package: src:healpy Version: 1.19.0-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Debian Astro Team, thank you for maintaining healpy in Debian, the January and February work on the Cython build and the pytest-cython dependency made the package much healthier. I am the upstream maintainer of healpy. Upstream released 1.20.0 on 22 July 2026 and 1.20.1 on 3 October 2026, while sid is still at 1.19.0-2, so I wanted to leave a tracked request here instead of only announcing the release upstream. Changes that seem most relevant to Debian: * NumPy 2.0 ABI. The extensions are now compiled against the NumPy 2.0 ABI and the minimum supported NumPy is 2.0.0 (upstream PR 1106). python3-numpy-dev is already in Build-Depends, so I expect nothing to change, but this is the item most worth a second look. * Fixed an out-of-bounds read in synalm when l == len(cl), reported upstream and fixed in PR 1108. It shows up under valgrind in healpy_synalm. * lonlat2thetaphi(..., latauto=True) no longer modifies the caller's arrays and now accepts read-only input (PR 1123). * Fixed rotate_alm for complex128 input that is not C-contiguous (issue 702). * New harmonic_ud_grade function, to change NSIDE through spherical harmonic transforms without the artefacts of pixel-space ud_grade (PR 1081). * almxfl is roughly 2 to 3 times faster on large datasets (issue 964). I checked the build dependencies against sid and I do not believe the update needs new ones: libhealpix-cxx-dev 3.83.0-2 satisfies the >= 3.83.0 constraint, and libsharp 1.0.0-2 and cfitsio 4.7.0-2 are current. pykg-config is still listed in [build-system] requires upstream, but pybuild does not use PEP 517 isolated requirements and 1.19.0 already carried the same line, so it should not matter. The three patches in debian/patches may need a rediff, most likely the test tolerance one for arm64 and ppc64el. The tarball is https://github.com/healpy/healpy/releases/download/1.20.1/healpy-1.20.1.tar.gz and the same file is on PyPI, so d/watch should pick it up. If it helps, I am glad to prepare the upload myself: import the new tarball, rediff the patches, build and run the test suite in a sid container, then push a branch or a merge request on salsa for review. I would need someone with upload rights to sponsor it. Please tell me whether you would like me to do that, or whether you would rather handle the bump yourselves. Thanks again, Andrea Zonca
