Hi Peter and Étienne,
Am Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:55:17PM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> Thank you for having issued Biopython 1.86 lately,
+1 and for keeping us informed.
> I took some
> time to bump the version for Debian sid tonight and it should be
> available at some time tomorrow for general use.
Thanks a lot Étienne for being that fast!
> Peter Cock, on 2025-10-29:
> > FYI - this adds Python 3.14 support, and removes a few deprecated
> > modules.
>
> Thanks, with Python 3.14 around the corner, support should avoid
> us some upcoming related bugs. I see that several legacy
> components that were causing difficulties in the past have been
> removed, and it has been possible to drop several lines of
> workarounds in the packaging code. Your work has been overall
> very helpful, thank you!
I love this fruitful cooperation between BioPython and Debian Med!
> > I do not expect any issues, please get in touch if there are
> > any surprises.
>
> Will do. Not sure if that counts as a surprise, but I ran into
> some friction with the i386 build[1]: something about the excess
> of floating point precision needed to pass test_align_one_char3.
> As far as I could witness, the error between 32 and 64-bit is
> more than reasonable, so I just skipped the test on 32-bit and
> moved on.
Sooner or later we might decide to drop 32bit support. The sooner we do
the less work we need to spent before we finally do so at the expense of
making very few users unhappy, thought.
> Upload to unstable will trigger builds for several processor
> architectures and integration tests, we'll see if there is more
> friction than just the i386 issue in the upcoming days.
Hope we will be fine here.
> > We are seeing some setuptools deprecation warnings, and are likely to
> > move from setup.py to pyproject.toml for the next release.
>
> Yes, it looks like the whole Python ecosystem is moving to
> pyproject.toml, so from a package maintenance perspective, this
> will give a chance to have the set of modules packaged in a way
> more homogene.
+1
> Have a nice day, :)
Same to you
Andreas.
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