Bug#938494: skimage (build-)depends on python-cloudpickle which has already been dropped

Ole Streicher olebole at debian.org
Fri Sep 13 08:56:56 BST 2019


Hi Andreas,

Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> writes:
> as Peter Green found out the cloudpickle source package droped Python2
> support which makes bug #938494 serious.  I guess it would be even
> harder to drop python-skimage right now since this would affect
> python-numpy and according to
>
>    $ apt-cache rdepends python-numpy | sort | uniq | wc -l
>
> 339 reverse dependencies.  I have no better solution than just pinging
> bug #938494 from time to time - and to ping this list to work harder on
> Python3 migration.

Since skimage is team maintained, I will just do a team upload with the
Python 2 package removed (as member of d-science).

Cheers

Ole



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