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

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