[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#768730: Bug#768730: python-mne REMOVED from testing

[Alexandre Gramfort]

hi,

> I have not fully understood your conversation whether release team was
> contacted about 0.8.6 or not.

I understood yes.

> I also failed to understand the issue
> with failed tests in connection with pandas.

latest pandas release makes a test failing.

> So I do not know whether
> you expect me to do something after I'm slowly recovering to normal
> operation after vacation.

I think that yarik is on it.

> I'd recommend a branch called jessie featuring the very minimum changes
> in a quilt patch against the version that was in Jessie before it was
> removed.  The upload should be discussed in advance with
> debian-release at lists.debian.org.  I personally think that chances are
> very low to convince the release team to care for a low popcon package.
> An extra obstactle is the newer version in unstable so we can not really
> simply upload to unstable without an epoch.  I'm personally tempted to
> give up with python-mne in Jessie and hope that all involved people
> have learned the lession that a removal warning is an honst issue and
> we need to follow the release policy in a short time frame.

nothing to add.

thanks Andreas for your time.

Alex