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

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:56:56AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> 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).

Sure.  But do you want to do team uploads of python-numpy and its > 300
rdepends as well?  I was considering the amount of packages that are
affected by RC bugs which is way lower if we leave skimage RC buggy
rather than making python-numpy RC buggy.  I mean, in the end we need to
port everything but we can decide about a noisy mailing list flooding us
every now and than with 300 mails about packages getting removed from
testing or keeping that number at about 20.

BTW, you can start with droping rdepends by droping astro-python
metapackage.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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