On Wed, 06 Feb 2019, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> writes: > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_pal...@zoho.com> writes: > >> > Has anyone checked whether this would break pandas' reverse dependencies? > >> I didn't yet. I just tried to update the packaging to 0.24, which > >> however has a number of test failures, which would need to be discussed > >> with upstream first. > > if not sever - I guess could be patched to be skipped for now and then > > patches picked up to address them? or it was too many/too deep? > If you want: please do it as you like. My own workflow is to first > discuss all failures with upstream, especially when I can't estimate > the impact - sometimes it may be even fault of the package. There were it is the same approach I am taking usually > about ten failures, which makes this already quite an effort. Especially > since I did not work closely with upstream so far (so I don't know them > well, and they don't know me) -- this communication should IMO be done > by the regular maintainer. And, as I wrote, the package rules are a bit > complicated, so I don't want to touch them before they are simplified > (which would add more efforts on top of that). Bringing the other stuff > to gbp standards (pristine-tar etc.) even more. I have been using gbp for it for long time, and there is debian/gbp.conf with all needed settings. pristine-tar is just an option, and I kept burning myself with it too often to rely on it, original author (Joey Hess) even recommended abandoning it at some point in the past. > And it also does not solve the problem that updating can introduce > regressions in reverse dependencies, which is not the best thing we can > do just before freeze. But finally you are the maintainer, if you think > that updating is the way to go, just do it ;-) Is there any other commit you would like to push on top of your recent 721fcf98d4b79d146a92a8d8def8dee1daecb4c0 ? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
