Hi science team, By the way, when do we start dropping python2 support? The upstreams of the whole python scientific computing stack had already started dropping it.
On 2019-07-07 14:40, Drew Parsons wrote: > On 2019-07-07 21:11, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: >> matplotlib and scikit-learn have also had upstream releases, and numpy >> is likely to soon; I do not know their maintainers' intentions. >> >> On 07/07/2019 12:59, Drew Parsons wrote: >>> On 2019-07-07 19:29, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: >>>> I'd like to get [pandas+statsmodels] up to latest upstream in time for the >>>> next Ubuntu >>>> (freeze 22 August[2]), but am not sure if this is realistic for >>>> pandas, given the rather large number of rdeps. >>> >>> >>> Speaking of updates, I want to drop scipy 1.2 into unstable in the coming >>> days if not hours. >> >> Given that scipy 1.2 is ready to go in experimental (statsmodels isn't >> - I'd like to at least merge the packaging changes from unstable), and >> has already been in an Ubuntu release, it probably makes sense for it >> to go first. > > scipy 1.2 should be safe enough (2 client packages were FTBFS on it > but now have new versions fixing that). Ideally it should have been in > buster alongside numpy 1.16, but anyway. I'll wait for currently > waiting packages to migrate into testing, and then push it through to > unstable after that. > > There's also mpi4py, which I think we should bring in to Debian > Science (where it will fit alongside mpich and h5py). > > Drew

