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. -- http://fam-tille.de
