Bug#799284: debian-science: Stop recommending python-pyke in science-machine-learning

[Daniele Tricoli]

Hello Barry,

On Thursday 17 September 2015 10:32:26 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> python-pyke (source package pyke) hasn't been modified upstream since
> at least 2013 if not earlier.  pyke is no longer compatible with the
> newer versions of ply which are in unstable.  science-machine-learning
> is the only reverse-dependency on python-pyke, as a Recommends, so
> this should probably be removed.

I was going to work on the RC bug of pyke about unsatisfiable dependencies in 
sid (#799577) (I'm not using pyke anymore so unfortunately I did not 
discovered this before: thanks Barry for spotting this!) and I discovered what 
you already explained here: pyke is no longer compatible with ply and it seems 
to be death upstream (although upstream seems still active on the Sourceforge 
forums).

I wrote to upstream asking if there is a plan for a new version of pyke:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/pyke/discussion/744447/thread/fe27b26a/

but I agree with Barry: it should be removed from the archive. It is already 
on the autoremoval list for testing and after the upload of science-machine-
learning it can be removed from unstable

Maybe we should wait a bit to see if upstream will reply.

I can fill the RM bug, for the ftp-team should be easier to handle the RM if 
the request came from the maintainer, right?

Please tell me what do you think about!

Kind regards,

-- 
 Daniele Tricoli 'eriol'
 https://mornie.org
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