Bug#880245: statsmodels

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

On 13/02/2019 09:10, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Any volunteer to backport the relevant changes I pushed to Git right now
> to 0.8.0?

I intend to try tomorrow, if the uploaders don't say anything first.

> I'm actually wondering why the package did not got any removal
> from testing warning (or did I missed something)?

statsmodels is considered a key package (i.e. can't be autoremoved) 
because of the statsmodels -> seaborn -> sphinx-gallery -> matplotlib 
build-dependency chain.

The autoremoval list (sorted by maintainer/team) is
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi

> PS: As a general note: We probably need more people dedicated to Debian
> Science QA work.

I guess that's sort of what I do (and if statsmodels and/or pandas were 
to become available, they are at least things I use).