Bug#729956: Forwarded upstream

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Diane,

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:45:14PM -0700, Diane Trout wrote:
> 
> > but the build failed (for other reasons).  I'd willing to work on
> > this
> > but I definitely need help since I'm lacking the needed Python
> > knowledge.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I saw your debian-python3 branch for statsmodels.
> 
> The dependencies added in the package should probably be added as
> build-dependencies. and not package dependencies.
> 
> I believe python-zmq should be a binary dependency. 

Thanks for the hints.
 
> I was trying to build it right now but I'm getting a dependency error.
> 
>  libpython2.7-stdlib : Breaks: python-pandas-lib (<= 0.20.3-1) but
> 0.20.3-1 is to be installed

I also get an error in the Python 2.7 test suite so I have no idea
where to continue with the Python3 stuff.

> Should I see if I can get a python3 build working? and who should I
> send any progress too?

Keep on commiting on the debian-python3 branch (or fix everything inside
the debian branch - I simply did not want to crash this ...)  Please
just consider me a poor uneducated guy who only intended to inspire the
more skilled ones to pick up an urgent topic. :-P

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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